Hubert Robert, 1787

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Medium

black chalk and stumping, heightened with white gouache on wove paper, wrapped around a drawing block prepared by Niodot fils

Dimensions

image: 26.5 x 20.7 cm (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
overall (

sheet): 32.3 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Morton Morris

Accession Number

2000.176.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (artist) French, 1767 - 1855

Image Use

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Inscription

Dated indistinctly in black chalk at lower left: 1787; on verso of mount: label of Niodot fils., Md. Papetier (similar to Lugt 1944a); on upper verso, on sticker in red ink: 1886; by later hand, center verso in brown ink: Portrait d'Hubert Robert / par Isabey; by later hand, center verso in graphite: esquisse est u musée d'Orléans

Provenance

Private collection (sale, Salle des Fêtes, Villennes-sur-Seine, 11 April 1999, p. 2; John Morton Morris, London (of Hazlitt, Gooden, & Fox, London); gift to NGA in 2000.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Morris, John Morton, Mr.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Salle des Fêtes

Exhibition History

2000: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings and Some Sculpture. Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London. London, 2000, no. 4.

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 264-265, 291-292, no. 114 (color).

Bibliography

1999: Stein, Perrin, and Mary Tavener Holmes. Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1999: 225, under no. 97.