Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 462
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 86

Provenance

Jean Frédéric Perregaux (1744-1808), Paris and Viry-Châtillon
by inheritance to his daughter, the maréchale duchesse de Raguse (1779-1855, née Anne Marie Hortense Perregaux), Paris and Viry-Châtillon
her estate sale, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, 14-15 December 1857, nr. 42
Madame Louis Stern, Paris, by 1911
sale, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 22 April 1929, nr. 19
with Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, sold 23 December 1946 to the Kress Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1952.5.50

Other works by Hubert Robert

A young man and his dog

Banditti by a fountain with a statue of abundance, two pyramids beyond

Hermit praying in a ruinous gallery
c. 1760

The Bathing Pool

The Fire at the Opera House of the Palais-Royal
c. 1781