Past Exhibition

Hubert Robert

This is a drawing of an interior scene in a rustic setting. The room has a high ceiling with exposed wooden beams and a large window. Various figures are engaged in dancing, playing music, and observing. To the left, a character plays a flute while standing on a barrel. In the foreground, a dancer appears in mid-motion. The figures are clustered around the central dancer, some holding hands and others leaning against barrels. In the background, a ladder reaches up to a loft area where additional objects are stored. The atmosphere is festive yet intimate, with a focus on movement and engagement among the elements in the image.
Hubert Robert, The Peasant Dance, c. 1770/1775, pen and black ink with gray and brown wash and black chalk over a black chalk counterproof, on laid paper, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1963.15.26

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    West Building, Ground Floor, Galleries G-12, G-13
This is a drawing of an interior scene in a rustic setting. The room has a high ceiling with exposed wooden beams and a large window. Various figures are engaged in dancing, playing music, and observing. To the left, a character plays a flute while standing on a barrel. In the foreground, a dancer appears in mid-motion. The figures are clustered around the central dancer, some holding hands and others leaning against barrels. In the background, a ladder reaches up to a loft area where additional objects are stored. The atmosphere is festive yet intimate, with a focus on movement and engagement among the elements in the image.
Hubert Robert, The Peasant Dance, c. 1770/1775, pen and black ink with gray and brown wash and black chalk over a black chalk counterproof, on laid paper, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1963.15.26

Overview: 62 works by Hubert Robert from 20 collections here and abroad were organized by Victor Carlson, curator of prints and drawings at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition ran concurrently with the Fragonard drawings exhibition. These special loan exhibitions were coordinated with the reinstallation of the French period rooms.

Attendance: 42,639

Catalog: Hubert Robert, Drawings and Watercolors, by Victor Carlson. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1978.

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