Charitable Ladies, c. 1780/1785

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Medium

pen and brown ink and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 37.8 x 26.8 cm (14 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
support: 48.3 x 36.8 cm (19 x 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1963.15.25

Artists / Makers

Hubert Robert (artist) French, 1733 - 1808

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black ink: Robert

Provenance

George Blumenthal [1858-1941], Paris (sale, Paris, Galerie George Petit, 1-2 December 1932, no. 43, as Les Dames Charitables). Wessel. [1] Purchased 1933 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The only available sale catalogue for the collector Wessel, which corresponds this time frame (1932-1933), is Elise Wessel’s sale, V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 29-30 November 1933. However, there is no work in this catalogue by Hubert Robert.

Associated Names

Blumenthal, George
Galerie Georges Petit
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Wessel

Bibliography

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 340, dK242, fig. 303.

1978: Carlson, Victor. Hubert Robert Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 55 (in both as "Strolling Musicians").