An Artist Seated in the Ruins of the Colosseum

Provenance

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.

An Artist Seated in the Ruins of the Colosseum

Hubert Robert

c. 1759

Accession Number

64603

Medium

Red chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Dimensions

41.7 × 54 cm (16 7/16 × 21 5/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Print and Drawing Department Purchase Fund