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An Artist Seated in the Ruins of the Colosseum
Hubert Robert · c. 1759
Provenance
Ownership history
- By descent to the artist's wife [Paris 1933]. G. W. Riggs (died 1888), from 1860 [Paris 1933]; by descent to Mlle. De L... [Paris 1933]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 22, 1933, lot 28. Poulet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 3, 1965, lot 50. Sold by William Schab, New York, to the Art Institute, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 102-103, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, 1986.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
- Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert", June 26 - October 2, 2016, pp. 90, 200, cat. 4 (ill.), cat. by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall, et. al.
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