The Ponte Salario

Before that, it was listed in the estate sale of the maréchale duchesse de Raguse at the Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs in Paris on 14–15 December 1857.

Hubert Robert created the oil-on-canvas painting The Ponte Salario on January 17, 1775. The work first entered the collection of Jean Frédéric Perregaux, a Swiss-born banker and regent of the Banque de France, who reportedly acquired it directly from the artist. By 1808, the painting was listed in Perregaux's postmortem inventory, valued at 120 francs and displayed in the salon of his Paris townhouse.

Upon Perregaux's death, the piece passed by inheritance to his daughter, Anne Marie Hortense Perregaux, who became the maréchale duchesse de Raguse. It remained in her possession until her estate sale in Paris in December 1857. The painting later belonged to Madame Louis Stern before being sold at Galerie George Petit in 1929.

It subsequently entered the stock of Wildenstein & Co., Inc., in New York, which sold it to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in December 1946. The foundation gifted the work to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1952.

The Ponte Salario has been held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., since 1952, when it entered the institution as a gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The Kress Foundation had acquired the painting through Wildenstein & Co., Inc., in New York on 23 December 1946. As part of the Kress Collection, the work carries an accession within that gift group at the NGA.

Earlier in its provenance, the painting passed through the collection of Madame Louis Stern in Paris by 1911 and was offered at the Galerie George Petit in Paris on 22 April 1929. Before that, it was listed in the estate sale of the maréchale duchesse de Raguse at the Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs in Paris on 14–15 December 1857. The painting originally belonged to the Swiss-born banker Jean Frédéric Perregaux, in whose 1808 postmortem inventory it was recorded hanging in the salon of his townhouse at 9, rue du Mont Blanc, valued at 120 francs.