Hubert ROBERT (Paris 1733-Id.1808) Characters admiring the antiques under the colonnade of the Villa Albani. Black stone, pen, black ink and brown wash. Watermark. Glued on foil. Netting with pen. 18 x 23 cm. Provenance: 1- Folio 26 of the album of 101 drawings made in Italy by Hubert Robert; 2- Probably Paris, 5 April 1809, sale after Hubert Robert's death; 3- Countess de Béhague (1870-1939); 4- By descent, de Ganay family; 5- Monaco, Sotheby's, Succession du Marquis de Ganay, 1 December 1989, No. 22. Exhibition: 1- Paris, 1957, Galerie Cailleux, Hubert Robert-Louis Moreau. Exposition du cent - cinquantenaire de leur mort, exhibited under n° 1 with the rest of the album; 2- Washington, 1978, National Gallery of Art; Hubert Robert, Drawings and Watercolors, exhibited under n° 12 with the rest of the album, ill. in cat.p.75. Bibliography : Victor Carlson, Hubert Robert : Drawings and Watercolors, 1978, Washington, National Gallery of Art, ill. p. 75.