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Jean-Robert Ango (active Rome 1760-1773), and Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Lot 39

Jean-Robert Ango (active Rome 1760-1773), and Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)

A waterfall in a colonnade (i), and A woman and her children visiting a tomb in a crypt (ii)

Closed30 January 2014

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Jean-Robert Ango (active Rome 1760-1773), and Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
A waterfall in a colonnade (i), and A woman and her children visiting a tomb in a crypt (ii)
indistinctly inscribed (ii)
black chalk
i) 12 5/8 x 17¾ in. (32 x 45 cm.); ii) 16½ x 21 3/8 in. (42 x 54.2 cm.)
2

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London 9 December 1986, lot 112 (unsold; as by Hubert Robert).

Specialist note

Ango's drawing is related to a painting by Robert which was exhibited at the Salon of 1767, now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, along with its pendant, La villa Madame (Valence, op. cit., pp. 170-71, no. 40; and pp. 172-73, no. 41). There are slight differences between Ango's drawing and Robert's painting - notably in the placement of figures and some architectural details - which suggests that Ango's drawing is after a lost preparatory drawing by Robert.

Robert's drawing was made directly on the backing board of what must be the orginal mount (and not the verso of Ango's drawing). He inscribed the entire composition in a hastily drawn lunette.