Ruined Farm
c. 1770/1775
Artist, French, 1733 - 1808

Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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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