ID 1360953
Lot 82 | FOLLOWER OF HUBERT ROBERT (PARIS 1733-1808)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
A fountain in the gardens of the Villa d'Este
with inscription ‘H. Robert fecit 1770’ (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, and watercolor, heightened with white, ink framing lines
8 ½ x 8 ¾ in. (20.5 x 22 cm)
Provenance
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822-1896 and 1830-1870), Paris (L. 1089), acquired between 24 April and 15 November 1858; Hotel Drouot, Paris, 16 February 1897, lot 250 (as La Villa Médicis); acquired by Féral for
Comtesse Marie-Anatole-Louise-Élisabeth Greffulhe (1860-1952), Paris; Sotheby’s, London, 22 July 1937, lot 47.
with Wildenstein & Co., New York (Timeless Master Drawings, 1955, no. 98).
Mrs. James W. Johnson, Montreal, 1962.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 1 December 1970, lot 172.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.
Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to
Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.
Literature
P. de Chennevières, ‘Les dessins de maîtres anciens exposés à l’École des beaux-arts’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, II, 1879, p. 207.
P. de Chennevières, Les dessins de maîtres anciens exposés à l’École des beaux-arts en 1879, Paris, 1880, p.112.
E. de Goncourt, La Maison d’un artiste, I, Paris, 1881, p. 143.
Dessins, aquarelles, et pastels du XVIII siècle composant la collection des Goncourt, Paris, 1897, no. 250.
G. Lecomte, ‘Les Goncourt collectionneurs’, L’Illustration, no. 4735, 2 December, 1933, n.p., ill.
Art News, December 1955, p. 1.
G. Bauër, ‘Les deux Goncourt collectionneurs par un Goncourt collectionneur’, Cahiers d'Art, CXXIX, November 1962, p. 104, ill.
E. Launay, Les Frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins, Paris, 1991, no. 268, ill.
Exhibited
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue descriptif des dessins de maitres anciens exposé à l' École des Beaux-Arts, 1879, no. 612.
Paris, Exposition Goncourt organisée par la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 250.
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Eighteenth Century Art of France and England, 1950, no. 93.
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, From Boucher to Vuillard. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Marjorie Bronfman, 2000 (without catalogue).
Ottawa, National Gallery of Art, French Drawings from Canadian Collections, 2004.
| Artist: | Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808) |
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| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808) |
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| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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