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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, pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk counterproof on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1890
Medium
pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk counterproof on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 14 7/16 x 11 9/16 in. (36.6 x 29.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.1890
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Paris: Galerie Jean Charpentier.. Exposition Hubert Robert et Louis Moreau.. June 1922.. 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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.
Provenance
F. Renaud (mounted by; L. 1042);* Cournerie (sale Paris, 1891, no. 95, according to Parran sale); Mlle. Parran (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 23–24, 1921, no. 74); Marius Paulme (L. 1910; sale Paris, Georges Petit, May 14, 1929, no. 221 {illustrated}); Charles d'Heucqueville (sale Paris, June 24–25, 1936, no. 71 {illustrated}); Robert Sterling Clark.
*"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.