French, 1733-1808
Le Pont Tournant et la Terrasse des Tuileries, sur la Place Louis XV, à Paris
Circa 1775
Signed H. Robert f. and bearing the collector's mark of the connoisseur and collector Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910) (ll)
Sanguine chalk on paper
14 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches (36 x 49.5 cm)
Frame 23 1/8 x 27 1/2 inches (58.8 x 69.8 cm)
Provenance:
[Sale] Hotel Drouot, Dec. 9, 1920 (No. 214) to F.M.
Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910), Paris
[Sale] Galerie Georges Petit, the Marius Paulme sale, May 13-15, 1929; purchased May 14 by “Owen”
Collection of Mrs. C.I. Stralem, New York
Shepherd Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
Private collection, New York
There is a slightly smaller version of this composition by Robert in the Musée de Valence, France, which is recorded in the catalogue “Les Hubert Robert de la Collection Veyrene au Musée de Valence,” 1985 by Jean de Cayeux, among "oeuvres en rapport" relating to cat. no. 52, “La Place Louis XV rue des fossees,” pp. 210-212.
French, 1733-1808
Le Pont Tournant et la Terrasse des Tuileries, sur la Place Louis XV, à Paris
Circa 1775
Signed H. Robert f. and bearing the collector's mark of the connoisseur and collector Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910) (ll)
Sanguine chalk on paper
14 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches (36 x 49.5 cm)
Frame 23 1/8 x 27 1/2 inches (58.8 x 69.8 cm)
Provenance:
[Sale] Hotel Drouot, Dec. 9, 1920 (No. 214) to F.M.
Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910), Paris
[Sale] Galerie Georges Petit, the Marius Paulme sale, May 13-15, 1929; purchased May 14 by “Owen”
Collection of Mrs. C.I. Stralem, New York
Shepherd Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
Private collection, New York
There is a slightly smaller version of this composition by Robert in the Musée de Valence, France, which is recorded in the catalogue “Les Hubert Robert de la Collection Veyrene au Musée de Valence,” 1985 by Jean de Cayeux, among "oeuvres en rapport" relating to cat. no. 52, “La Place Louis XV rue des fossees,” pp. 210-212.
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