Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction

Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction

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Property from a European Private Collection

Hubert Robert

A laundress and a woman with a basket

Lot closes

12:09:29

July 4, 11:15 AM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

Starting Bid

6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection


Hubert Robert

Paris 1733 - 1808

A laundress and a woman with a basket


signed with point of the brush and brown wash on the pedestal, lower right: Robert/Anno/1773

pen and brown ink and watercolour over black chalk within brown ink framing lines

230 by 309 mm

Sale, Paris, Tajan, 24 March 2003, lot 39;

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2014, lot 75

V. Carlson, Hubert Robert Drawings and Watercolours, exh. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1978, p. 128, under no. 51

Robert produced another version of this drawing, almost an exact replica, dated 1781, which is now in a New York private collection.1 Carlson, in his catalogue entry for that drawing, mentions that the two figures and their accessories, along with the pedestal and the urn, derive from Robert's watercolour, Le Grand Escalier (fig. 1).2


1 V. Carlson, op. cit., p. 128, no. 51


Ibid., p. 66, no. 20