Description
The inscription on the panel over the arched doorway seems to refer to Robert's Russian patron, Count Alexandre Sergevitch Stroganov, who was in Paris between 1770 and 1779 and commissioned a series of monumental paintings from Robert.
Provenance
Possibly Count Alexandre Stroganov [1733-1811], St. Petersburg (by 1779–by 1811); Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon [1747-1825; Lugt 779], Paris (?-1825); (Pérignon, Paris, Objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon, May 1-19, 1826, no. 736) (1826); (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) (?-1926); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1926-)
Accession Number
1926.504
Medium
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 44.1 x 28.2 cm (17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.9 x 38.7 cm (20 13/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Credit Line
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.