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Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781

Hubert Robert · 1781

Provenance

Ownership history

Georges Haumont, Sevres, by 1933 [Paris 1933]. Galerie Cailleux (Jean de Cayeux), Paris, by 1952 [Boucher 1952, stamp (Lugt 4461) recto, lower right, in black ink]; sold to the Art Institute, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Musée de Orangerie, "Hubert Robert," 1933, cat. 179.
London, Mathiessen Gallery, "French Master Drawings of the 18th Century," 1950, no. 77.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, "Dessins Francais de Watteau a Prud'hon," 1951, no. 123.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, "Hommage a Hubert Robert," 1967, no. 30.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors," November 19, 1978-January 21, 1979, pp. 126-127, cat. 50 (ill.).
New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 32; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert", June 26 - October 2, 2016, pp. 172, 243, cat. 80 (ill.), cat. by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall, et. al.

Literature

Denys Sutton, “French Drawings of the Eighteenth Century”, Burlington Magazine, 93:574 (Jan. 1951), pp. 27,29, image 23 (ill.).
F. Boucher, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle (Lausanne, 1952), no. 110 (ill.).
Jean Montague Massengale, “Hubert Robert Drawings and Water-Colours at the National Gallery of Art, Washington”, Burlington Magazine, 121:910 (Jan. 1979), pp. 64-68, Image 87 (ill.).
Marianne Roland Michel, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1987), no. 273 (ill.).
Nina Dubin, Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert (Getty Publications, 2010), pp. 65-66, fig. 25 (ill.).

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