Hubert Robert

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Hubert Robert

1733-1808

Young Woman, Seated before a Fireplace, Playing with a Baby

Pen and brown ink, brown and gray-brown washes, with blue watercolor over black chalk, on paper.

8 3/16 x 9 15/16 inches (209 x 253 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1958.4

Notes:

Watermark: Indecipherable in upper right corner, due to lining.
This drawing is related to Robert's oval painting "Mange, mon petit", dated 1773 and exhibited in the Salon of that year under the title "Un enfant que sa bonne fait déjeuner", which is now in the collection of Arthur Veil-Picard. A variant treatment of the subject, in an oil sketch, is in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Valence.

Provenance:

Franc̜ois Renaud, Paris (Lugt S.1042); Alfred Sensier; David David-Weill, Neuilly.

Associated names:

Renaud, François, 18th cent., former owner.
Sensier, Alfred, 1815-1877, former owner.
David-Weill, David, 1871-1952, former owner.

Bibliography:

Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 106-107.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 165.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 77.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 77, repr. in color.

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