Hubert ROBERT (Paris 1733-1808) Shepherd... - Lot 31 - Daguerre

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Hubert ROBERT (Paris 1733-1808) Shepherd... - Lot 31 - Daguerre
Hubert ROBERT (Paris 1733-1808) Shepherd and his dogs watching their flock from a mound Canvas. 42.6 x 62.5 cm Provenance: - Collection Pierre Decourcelle, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil et Baudoin, 29-30 May 1911, lot 39; - Anonymous sale Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Rheims- Lebel, 9 May 1952, lot 103 (repr. pl. 27). Bibliography: Sarah Catala, Les vies parallèles de Robert et de Fragonard, in catalogue exposition Hubert Robert, un peintre visionnaire, Paris, musée du Louvre 2016, p.195, and note 21. This painting, like its original counterpart La rentrée du troupeau (location unknown), appeared in the 1911 Pierre Decourcelle sale (Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil et Baudoin, 29-30 May 1911, lots 38 and 39) (fig.1); it was inspired by an engraving by Richard de Saint-Non (1727-1791), La sortie de la bergerie (1776, Musée du Louvre). This engraving itself is based on the composition of a drawing by Fragonard, La sortie du troupeau, now in the Fabre Museum of Montpellier (fig. 2). It was undoubtedly during his second trip to Italy (1773-1774) that the artist drew this rustic scene, testimony to the activity of the shepherds in the Roman countryside and its surroundings. We find in our painting the figure of the two dogs looking into the distance, while in the second one the same movement of the shepherd appears, like that of the stick, as well as the sense of the shepherd and the construction of the clouds. Hubert Robert and Fragonard both saw their work change and evolve during formative journeys in Italy and particularly in Rome, where they were boarders (1756-1761 ) at the Mancini Palace and met Richard de Saint-Non. The Roman landscapes were a great inspiration for Hubert Robert who spent eleven years there. He came back with thousands of drawings that allowed him to elaborate the compositio
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