A statue of Menander

Name: HUBERT ROBERT (PARIS 1733-1808)
Brand: A statue of Menander
Price: 800.00 GBP
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HUBERT ROBERT (PARIS 1733-1808)

A statue of Menander

Price Realised GBP 1,000

HUBERT ROBERT (PARIS 1733-1808)
A statue of Menander
red chalk, pen and brown-black ink, brown wash, watermark fleur-de-lys in a double circle
9³⁄₄ x 8¹⁄₄ in. (24.8 x 21 cm)

Probably Comtesse de Béhague, and by descent to
Marquis de Ganay; Monaco, Sotheby's, 1 December 1989, lot 14 (part of a dismembered album).
Jean de Cailleux (1913-2009), Paris (L. 4461).

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Lot Essay

This sheet belongs to a dismantled album once owned by the marquis de Ganay, which contained studies after the antique, made by Robert between 1763 and 1764, at the end of his Roman years. Several sketchbooks of this type are known today, of which one, from the Moreau-Nélaton collection, remains intact (Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 11478-RF 11571). The sculpture is of the Athenian comic poet and playwright Menander (circa 342-292 B.C.) and can still be seen at the Museo Pio-Clementino at the Vatican, where Robert must have copied it.