Fishermen Drawing Their Net

c. 1775-76

Medium	pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk counterproof on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 14 7/16 x 11 9/16 in. (36.6 x 29.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1890
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hubert Robert, Fishermen Drawing Their Net, c. 1775-76, pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk counterproof on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1890

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. Paris: Galerie Jean Charpentier.. Exposition Hubert Robert et Louis Moreau.. June 1922.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.

Provenance

F. Renaud (mounted by; L. 1042);* Cournerie (sale Paris, 1891, no. 95, according to Parran sale); Mlle. Parran (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 23–24, 1921, no. 74); Marius Paulme (L. 1910; sale Paris, Georges Petit, May 14, 1929, no. 221 {illustrated}); Charles d'Heucqueville (sale Paris, June 24–25, 1936, no. 71 {illustrated}); Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.