Bridge over a Cascade

Bridge over a Cascade

Bridge over a Cascade

Artist:Hubert Robert (French, Paris 1733–1808 Paris)
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:32 x 54 1/8 in. (81.3 x 137.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

This overdoor is one of a pair; its pendant, of almost exactly the same dimensions, is Aqueduct in Ruins (07.225.264b). The two were perhaps acquired by David Étienne Rouillé de l'Étang for the great house that he remodeled at 6, place Louis XV, later place de la Concorde, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

Provenance
David Étienne Rouillé de l'Étang, 6, place Louis XV, Paris (until d. 1811); his niece, Adélaïde Anne Louise Piscatory, marquise de Pastoret, Paris (1811–d. 1843); Amédée David de Pastoret, marquis de Pastoret, Paris (1843–d. 1857); Marie Jeanne Louise Thérèse de Pastoret, marquise du Plessis-Bellière, Paris, later (from 1870) château de Moreuil, Somme (1857–d. 1890; her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10–11, 1897, no. 72, for Fr 2000); [Georges Hoentschel, Paris, until 1906; sold to Morgan]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York (1906)

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