Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)

Figures and cattle crossing a bridge, anglers in the foreground

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Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Figures and cattle crossing a bridge, anglers in the foreground
red-chalk counterproof, reworked by the artist, watermark VANDER LEY [?] and counter-mark V
14¼ x 11¼ in. (36.1 x 28.5 cm.)

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We are grateful to Andrew Robison, who has identified the original drawing - of which this is a counterproof - in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington (inv. 1978.28.1). The drawing is mentioned in M. Morgan Grasselli, Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2009, under no. 85.

Please also note that the drawing was sold in these Rooms on 25 June 1968, lot 84.

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Harriet West

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Formed by placing a sheet of oiled paper over a fresh chalk drawing, a counterproof provided a means to record a composition but also the opportunity to develop and rework it. In the present drawing the underlying orange-coloured chalk and the hatching which runs from upper left to lower right ('mirrored' from the original drawing, which is no longer known) are the traces of the counterproof. Robert then extensively reworked the counterproof and these passages of original chalk-work are distinguishable by the redder, denser, crisper tone of the chalk, visible on the closest tree, the figures in the foreground and the bluffs on the far side of the waterfall.