Fishermen Drawing Their Net

c. 1775–76

Medium	black chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 7 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (19.8 x 31.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1875
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hubert Robert, Fishermen Drawing Their Net, c. 1775–76, black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1875

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

J. F. Gigoux (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 20–23, 1882, under no. 738 {as by Robert});* H. D. (L. 1300; unidentified, perhaps an early mark of H. Destailleur); Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.