The waterfall at Tivoli with figures resting by the pool

细节

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
The waterfall at Tivoli with figures resting by the pool
oil on paper laid down on canvas
12 x 14¾ in. (30.5 x 37.5 cm.)

来源

Eugène Fischoff sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 14 June 1913, lot 42 (incorrectly described as the pendant to lot 43 in that sale.
Edouard Latil collection.
with Wildenstein, New York.

展览

New York, Wildenstein & Co., French Painting of the XVIIIth Century, 1948, appendix G.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Les fêtes galantes, 20 January - 5 March 1956.

拍品专文

Although this painting has consistently been sold as the pendant to Figures by a footbridge (lot 52 in this sale) the two works are of slightly different size and executed on different supports, suggesting that they are almost certainly a 'married' pair rather than works that Robert conceived as pendants. Indeed, whereas Figures by a footbridge is signed and dated 1781, the present undated work appears, based on an assessment of its style, to have been painted earlier in Robert's career, perhaps the mid-1760s or early 1770s.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Hubert Robert being prepared by The Wildenstein Institute.