About This Artwork
Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808
Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781, 1781
Black chalk on ivory laid paper
462 x 361 mm
Restricted gift of Alan Rutenberg, Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments, 1990.140
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
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., The National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors," 1978, cat. 50.
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.
Publication History
F. Boucher, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle (Lausanne, 1952), no. 110 (ill.).
Marianne Roland Michel, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1987), no. 273 (ill.).
Ownership History
Georges Haumont, Sevres, by 1933 [Paris 1933]. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1952 [Boucher 1952]; sold to the Art Institute, 1990.