Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)

Le Musée des Antiques

细节

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Le Musée des Antiques
inscribed 'AEDES/ANTIQUITATUM'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor, the right margin extended, watermark Strasburg lily
14½ x 20 1/8 in. (370 x 510 mm.)

来源

Marquis Charles-Philippe de Chennevières (L. 2073); Paris, 5-6 May 1898, lot 163 (680 francs).

出版

P. de Chennevières, 'Une Collection de dessins d'artistes français', L'Artiste, XII, March 1897, p. 117.

拍品专文

The decoration on the façade of this imaginary museum resembles the wild fantasy of a collector of sculpture, including among other classical masterpieces the Equestrian Marcus Aurelius, the Farnese Hercules, the Apollo Belvedere, the Capitoline Flora, the Laocoon and the Dioscuri, with Trajan's Column standing in the forecourt. Although these works were not brought to Paris after Napoleon's ransacking of Roman collections in 1796, this drawing might show Robert musing, with a touch of humour, on the possibilities for the future of the Louvre.