A woman filling a water jar at a fountain

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Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
A woman filling a water jar at a fountain
red chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash
8 x 8 3/8 in. (203 x 214 mm.)

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Lot Essay

Similar in type to the drawings sold at Christie's, New York, 28 January 1999, lot 146 and to others in Lille (S. Raux, Catalogue des Dessins Français du XVIIIe Siècle, exhib. cat., Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1995, no. 63). These drawings were intended to form a stock of figures that the artist could re-use in his pictures.

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