Live Auction 7409Old Master and 19th Century Drawings
Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Lot 138

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)

A man in a grotto with a lantern

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GBP 2,160

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

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

Specialist note

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.