Hubert Robert

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Hubert Robert
1733-1808
View in an Italian Garden
Red chalk on paper.
10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (267 x 362 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 290
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Watermark: Vanderley, hunting horn with a shield (cf. Heawood 2749).

Provenance: 
William Mayor, London (Lugt 2799); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
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Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912., I, 290, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 75, repr.

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