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)

Details

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.)
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Provenance

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

Literature

Valence, Musée de Valence, Hubert Robert (1733-1808) et Saint-Pétersbourg: Les commandes de la famille impériale et des Princes russe entre 1773 et 1802, p. 170, under no. 40, p. 171, ill.

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein, Timeless Master Drawings, 1955, no. 95 (entitled Château d'eau).

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Lot Essay

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.

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