La Passerelle (A bridge under which you can discover the Sabine countryside) - Robert
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Description
Booklet from the 1767 Salon :
By M. Robert, Academician.
101. [...]
110. Two Paintings of the same size : one representing a Cascade falling between two Terraces, in the middle of a Colonnade ; the other a Vue d ela Vigne-Madame, à Rome.
111. Two other Paintings one, a Bridge, under which we see the Sabine Campaigns, 40 lieuses from Rome the other, the Ruins of the famous Portico of the Temple of Balbec, in Heliopolis.
These four Paintings are approximately 1 foot 1to inches wide, by 1 foot 5 inches high.
A Bridge under which we discover the Sabine countryside, forty leagues from Rome. In the background, the two temples of Paestum.
2. This painting has a counterpart, Les Ruines du fameux portique du temple de Balbec, à Héliopolis, which is lost.
Collection of Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully, sold March 5, 1770, no. 120
Basan, Paris : Christie's sale, London, Dec. 4, 1886, n°57
Galerie Cailleux, exhibited at the Galerie in Paris in 1957
Sold to Henri Decourt in the 1950s
Decourt Sotheby's sale, Paris Decourt Sotheby's sale, Monaco, June 15, 1990, n°276
Didier Aaron, New York, circa 1990
William B. Dietrich, Villanova, February 19, 1991
Bequest to the Philadelphia Museum, 2010.
Technical Data
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