Hubert Robert
The Loggia on the Upper Floor of the Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola
Medium Red chalk
Dimension 45.7 x 32.8 cm (18 x 12⁷/₈ inches)
A painting of the circular staircase of the Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola is in the Louvre. Two other drawings of Caprarola are found in a Roman sketchbook, used by Robert during his period in Italy, which belonged to the Marquis de Ganay and the Comtesse de Béhague and was broken up at auction in Monaco in 1989.
Laid down on a 19th century mount.
Medium: Red chalk
Dimension: 45.7 x 32.8 cm (18 x 12⁷/₈ inches)
Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 3 April 1984, lot 84
Galerie Cailleux, Paris, in 1985
Anonymous sale, Paris, Espace Pierre Cardin [AuctionArt-Rémy Le Fur], 27 April 2012, lot 120
Nicolas Schwed, Paris, in 2013
Private collection
Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris
Private collection, London.
Literature: Jean de Cayeux, Les Hubert Robert de la Collection Veyrenc au Musée de Valence, Valence, 1985, p.100, fig.17 and p.192, under no.46; Guillaume Faroult and Catherine Voiriot, Hubert Robert 1733-1808: Un peintre visionnaire, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2016, p.138, under no.9, fig.58.
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