The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
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October 14, 09:49 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
HUBERT ROBERT
Paris 1733 - 1808
THE TEMPLE OF DIANA AT NIMES WITH FIGURES IN THE FOREGROUND INCLUDING AN ARTIST SKETCHING
signed and dated on the pedestal lower left: H. ROBERT. / 1771
oil on canvas
29 by 39⅞ in.; 73.6 by 101.8 cm.
With Durand-Ruel, Paris;
William H. Crocker, Hillsborough, California, by 1934 and until at least 1942;
With Wildenstein & Co., New York;
From whom acquired by The Philips Family, New York, by 1988;With Agnew's, New York;
There acquired in 1993.
G. Brenier, Hubert Robert: The Pleasure of Ruins, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, pp. 84-5, reproduced p. 28.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, 1934, no. 49;
San Francisco Museum of Art, Survey of Landscape Painting, 1936, no. 89;
Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert and Boucher, 1981, no. 34;
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, The Rococo Age, French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century, 5 October - 31 December, 1983, no. 67;
New York, Wildenstein, Hubert Robert: The Pleasure of Ruins, 15 November - 16 December 1988.