Two washerwomen at a Triton fountain in a square with a statue of Jupiter

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Literatur zum Skizzenbuch:
Robert O. Parks, Piranesi, Northampton MA 1961, S. 74;
Jonathan Scott, Piranesi, London 1975, S. 175, S. 311, Anm. 9;
Jean de Cayeux, Hubert Robert et les Jardins, Paris 1987, S. 26.

Ausstellung:
Galerie Cailleux, Paris, “Hubert Robert, Louis Moreau, Exposition Du Cent-Cinquantenaire de Leur Mort”, 26.11.-20.12.1957, Kat. 1 Liste, S. 47. Folio 10 (als “Lavandières devant un bassin orné de Tritons”);
Victor Carlson, Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolours, Ausst.-Kat. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1978, Kat.-Nr. 24 (zum gesamten Skizzenbuch).

Provenienz:
Martine Marie Pol, Comtesse de Béhague (1870-1939);
im Erbgang an Marquis Hubert de Ganay;
im Erbgang an Marquis Jean-Louis de Ganay und die Grafen Charles, André, Michel und Paul de Ganay, seine vier Brüder;
Deren Auktion Sotheby’s, Monaco, 1.12.1989, Los 10;
Sotheby’s, London, Auktion, 3.7.1998;
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Auktion, 18.6.2010, Los 93;
Privatsammlung, München, in voriger Auktion erworben.

Description

From a sketchbook with studies and compositional sketches made by Hubert Robert in Rome between 1763 and 1764. The type of fountain depicted here obviously goes back to Bernini’s decorative fountain in Piazza Barberini and, with its two sea gods on whose shoulders rests a gigantic, water-filled mussel shell, is more reminiscent of the structure of the Fontana dei Tritoni by Francesco Carlo Bizzaccheri in Piazza della Bocca della Verità. In the background is an aqueduct, through which the fountain was probably fed. – A barely noticeable diagonal crease at the bottom right. The lower corners rounded. Paper somewhat thinned along the margins. The sheet edges with tiny losses. In fine condition.