Hubert ROBERT (Paris 1733 - 1808) Sans-culottes drinking at the Fountain of Liberty Watercolor, pen and black ink. Signed on the base of the fountain "H. Robert". 60.5 x 48.3 cm Another version of this composition, in red chalk, is in the Musée de la Révolution Française in Vizille (inv. 1984,553). Provenance : Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, July 4, 2000, lot 178. The painted version of this composition is dated from Saint-Lazare prison, where Robert, arrested in October 1793, was imprisoned from January 1794 until his release in August (see : P. Bordes and A. Chevalier, Musée de la Révolution française : catalog des Peintures, Sculptures et Dessins, Vizille, 1996, p. 242).