Provenienzforscherin Dr. Tessa Rosebrock über Hubert Robert

This is a scroll drawing by Hubert Robert from the 18th century. A free staircase with fountains and laundresses. It's a very, very beautiful page. Hubert Robert was a Frenchman in the 18th century, who gathered his inspiration mainly in Italy. And you can show a lot on this page, because it shows a lot of collector's stamps, which is really a stroke of luck. It is rare that a page is marked so strongly. In the middle of the 18th century, the collector's stamp was the big boom. The collectors developed a self-confidence for themselves and said, okay, what belongs to us, my taste, I want to know it documented. And then institutions and private collectors began to mark their property. So the collection becomes their own work of art. And in this case we actually have a page with three different collector's stamps. You can see quite a lot there. So down here in the corner you can see that this is a stamp, dry. François Renault was his name. This is the man who made the passepartout. He was a contemporary of Hubert. Then it was obviously in a Russian collection. This Sphinx emblem belongs to the Beckethof collection. Then it somehow came back to Germany. And in the 19th century it belonged to a doctor from Göttingen. You can see his monogram here, K.E.H., very artfully designed. We already have three stations of this page. I don't know exactly when and how the transition took place, but these are, so to speak, periods when I know that the page was in certain places.