A man in a grotto with a lantern

Details

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
A man in a grotto with a lantern
black chalk
162 x 238 mm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 July 1997, lot 257.

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Lot Essay

Similar in handling and size to a number of chalk drawings from a sketchbook used by Robert in Italy in 1754-65, formerly in the collection of the Marquis de Ganay and dismembered at Sotheby's, Monaco, 1 December 1989, lots 2-68. Fifty such albums are listed in Robert's posthumous sale, of which only two, at the Louvre and the Pierpont Morgan Library, now survive intact.

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