Vaulted Staircase
c. 1770–1779
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)
Drawings
Vaulted Staircase, c. 1770–1779. Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 44.1 x 28.2 cm (17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.); secondary support: 52.9 x 38.7 cm (20 13/16 x 15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1926.504 The inscription on the panel over the arched doorway seems to refer to Robert's Russian patron, Count Alexandre Sergevitch Stroganov, who was in Paris between 1770 and 1779 and commissioned a series of monumental paintings from Robert.
- Maker/Artist
- Robert, Hubert
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 44.1 x 28.2 cm (17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.9 x 38.7 cm (20 13/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: by artist, center, in brown ink: [Villaporta?] / nel S[illegible] / [illegible] / Stroganoff; verso of secondary support, upper left, in red chalk: fragonard delt / Collection de M Denon Directeur du Musée Napoleon
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1926.504
- Credit Line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Exhibitions
- Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance from Le Corbusier, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, Eighteenth Century Masterpieces, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Italian and French Drawings, Drawings, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Drawings, Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors, Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings, Brush Drawings, 18th Century Master Drawings, French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792, The Lessons of the Academy, Rococo, Revolution, Restoration, French Drawings from the Collection, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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