Ruined Farm

c. 1770/1775

Hubert Robert

Artist, French, 1733 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray and brown wash, and blue watercolor, over a black chalk counterproof, with black chalk additions, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 36.5 x 29 cm (14 3/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
    support: 45.7 x 37.6 cm (18 x 14 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.27


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1933 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: p.340: dK243, fig.304.

1978

  • Carlson, Victor. Hubert Robert Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 33.

Inscriptions

lower left: Robert; in later hand, upper left verso: No 705 / H-Robert; lower right verso in brown ink: hubert Robert AD No196

Wikidata ID

Q64574699


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