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HUBERT ROBERT (1733–1808)

A capriccio of a villa surrounded by a moat, with a classical statue of a goddess to the left

Year 1797
Medium Oil on canvas; unframed, on its original stretcher
Dimensions 242 x 242 cm; 95 1/4 x 95 1/4 in.
Signed and dated Signed and dated H. ROBERT / 1797 (on the statue’s plinth, lower left)

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Provenance

Sale, Paris, Charpentier, 27 April 1951, lots 45 (consigned by Madame F. Vernez of 30 Avenue de Messine, Paris) and 46 (consigned by Charles Paul Henri Wallon (1875 – 1958) of 86 Avenue de Breteuil, Paris);
Where acquired by the Riquelme Gallery, Biarritz (for 1,200,000 Francs);
Bartolomé March Servera (1917 – 1998), Paris;
By descent to his daughter Leonor March Cencillo, Spain, since the 1970s;
From whom acquired by the present owners.

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