ID 793497
Lot 53 | HUBERT ROBERT (PARIS 1733-1808)
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
A courtyard near the Campo Vaccino in Rome
signed and dated ‘Roberti 1759’ and inscribed ‘Salpetriera a presso Campo vaccino’
red chalk
45.2 x 34.1 cm (18 x 12 1⁄2 in.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 4 May 1938, lot 95.
Arthur Georges Veil-Picard (1854-1944), Paris; thence by descent,
Trésors de la Collection Veil-Picard, Christie’s, Paris, 23 June 2010, lot 73.
Literature
J.-P. Cuzin and P. Rosenberg, Jean-Honoré Fragonard et Hubert Robert à Rome, exhib. cat., Rome, Villa Medici, 1990, p. 74, under no. 25 (entry by C. Boulot and J.-P. Cuzin).
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| Artist: | Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Stone |
| Artist: | Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Stone |
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