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Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Lot 24

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)

Capuchin priests beside the Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli

Closed2 July 2013

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Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Capuchin priests beside the Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour
12½ x 17½ in. (31.8 x 44.3 cm.)

Possibly Pierre-Jean Mariette; Paris, 15 November 1775-16 January 1776, part of lot 1344 ('Robert. (Hubert) Deux autres dessins colorés, représentant le Panthéon & le Temple de Tivoli.' (600 livres to Paillet)).
A.-D. Bérard (L. 75).
Henry Lacroix.
Louis Cartier; Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 November 1979, lot 515.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 December 1984, lot 125.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 28 January 2000, lot 72.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 2004, lot 113.

Specialist note

Although the present drawing does not bear Mariette's mark it seems that it was part of his great collection and would have been associated with a Capriccio view of the Pantheon belonging to the Jean Bonna Collection, Geneva (Rosenberg, op. cit., no. F.2714). See also Suite française. Dessins de la collection Jean Bonna, exhib. cat., Paris, Ecole de Beaux-Arts, 2006, no. 49.