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Lot 398

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)

La fileuse: Capriccio with the Pyramid of Cestius, a statue of Hercules, Roman altars, sarcophagi and amphorae, a woman spinning and a child

Fermé9 December 2009

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GBP 12,000–18,000

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Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
La fileuse: Capriccio with the Pyramid of Cestius, a statue of Hercules, Roman altars, sarcophagi and amphorae, a woman spinning and a child
signed, located and dated 'DESSINE A STE PELAGIE PAR H ROBER... L'AN DEUSIE. DE LA REPUBLIC' (on the slab, lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, on a feigned mount with a gold framing line
14 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (37.1 x 24.5 cm.) (drawing); 18 x 12¾ in. (45.7 x 32.3 cm.) (sheet)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1991, lot 337, where acquired by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Hubert Robert executed this capriccio of ruins and statues while being held at the Parisian jail of Sainte-Pélagie. He had been arrested on the charge of having failed to renew his civilian's card, but it is more likely that he was imprisoned on political grounds. Sainte-Pélagie was the first prison at which he was held, from his arrest on 29 October 1793, until his transferral to the prison of Saint-Lazare on 30 January 1794. Other drawings executed at this date include a study of two prisoners at Sainte-Pélagie playing cards (V. Carlson, Hubert Robert, Drawings and Watercolours, Washington, 1978, no. 58). Robert was eventually released in July 1794, after the fall of Robespierre.