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拍品專文
We are grateful to Joseph Baillio for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs. The picture will be published in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the work of Hubert Robert, to be published by the Wildenstein Institute.
Hubert Robert received a classical education from the Jesuits at the prestigious College de Navarre (1745-1751), the most important college after the Sorbonne. That he became an able Latinist and knowledgeable about history and literature is reflected in the attention that he paid to ancient inscriptions and archeological details in his painting. His training with the sculptor Michel-Ange Slotz introduced a life-long interest in sculpture that occupied a prominent place in his painted compositions. In 1754, he went to Italy in the entourage of his father's employer, the comte de Stainville (later duc de Choiseul), newly appointed French ambassador to Rome. During his eleven years in Rome, where he studied side by side with the pensionnaires at the French Academy, Robert met important collectors and artists, including Piranesi and Giovanni Paolo Panini, the Academy's teacher of perspective, who would prove the greatest influence on Robert's early style. Robert specialized in architectural fantasies painted with loose brushstrokes and a rich impasto, and of which the present lot is a characteristic, if particularly colourful, example. On the basis of photographs, Joseph Baillio dates this picture to circa 1760.
Henryk Dembinski, a Pole, was an officer in the Warsaw Duchy, and was made Lieutenant by Napoleon. In 1831 he was nominated temporary Commander in Chief of the Polish army corps, and later attempted to assume dictatorial power, but was dismissed from the general command of the Polish army as a result of conflicts with his officers and the government. He then emigrated to France but continued to travel widely until his death in Montmorency in 1851.
We are grateful to Jan van Helmont for identifying the coat-of-arms.
Hubert Robert received a classical education from the Jesuits at the prestigious College de Navarre (1745-1751), the most important college after the Sorbonne. That he became an able Latinist and knowledgeable about history and literature is reflected in the attention that he paid to ancient inscriptions and archeological details in his painting. His training with the sculptor Michel-Ange Slotz introduced a life-long interest in sculpture that occupied a prominent place in his painted compositions. In 1754, he went to Italy in the entourage of his father's employer, the comte de Stainville (later duc de Choiseul), newly appointed French ambassador to Rome. During his eleven years in Rome, where he studied side by side with the pensionnaires at the French Academy, Robert met important collectors and artists, including Piranesi and Giovanni Paolo Panini, the Academy's teacher of perspective, who would prove the greatest influence on Robert's early style. Robert specialized in architectural fantasies painted with loose brushstrokes and a rich impasto, and of which the present lot is a characteristic, if particularly colourful, example. On the basis of photographs, Joseph Baillio dates this picture to circa 1760.
Henryk Dembinski, a Pole, was an officer in the Warsaw Duchy, and was made Lieutenant by Napoleon. In 1831 he was nominated temporary Commander in Chief of the Polish army corps, and later attempted to assume dictatorial power, but was dismissed from the general command of the Polish army as a result of conflicts with his officers and the government. He then emigrated to France but continued to travel widely until his death in Montmorency in 1851.
We are grateful to Jan van Helmont for identifying the coat-of-arms.