Robert

Hubert

1733 — 1808

Caravan in a Tivoli-inspired landscape

Oil on wood.
On the back of the panel: wax seal with the Sabran family arms; stencil inscription “356W” that could correspond with a register of property seized from emigrants (the work does not appear among the paintings in the Countess of Sabran’s posthumous inventory).
270 x 190 mm (10 ⁵/₈ x 7 ⁸/₁₆ in.)

Provenance

Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville (1749-1827), Countess of Sabran (wax seal bearing her arms on the verso; Léon Michel-Lévy collection; his sale in Paris, Georges Petit gallery, June 17^th-18^th, 1925, Lot 149; acquired by Louis Boistel; private collection.

Bibliography

Joseph Baillio, The Arts of France, from François I to Napoleon I, cat. exp. New York, Wildenstein & co, 2005, p. 274, note 1.

An exquisite and spirited sketch painted on wood panel by Hubert Robert in preparation for a larger canvas which once formed part of the décor of the drawing room in the Parisian town house of the Countess de Sabran.

Sold to the Musée des Beaux-arts de Draguignan.