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Hubert Robert
French, 1733–1808
Fishermen Drawing Their Net
c. 1775–76

Image Caption

Hubert Robert, Fishermen Drawing Their Net, c. 1775–76, black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1875
Medium
black chalk on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 7 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (19.8 x 31.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.1875
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

J. F. Gigoux (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 20–23, 1882, under no. 738 {as by Robert});* H. D. (L. 1300; unidentified, perhaps an early mark of H. Destailleur); Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.