About This Artwork

Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808

Wine Press, c. 1759

Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
289 x 366 mm
Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund, 1963.810

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors," November 9, 1978-January 21, 1979, cat. 4.

The Art Institute of Chicago, September-October 1987 (Installation).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century" February 27-May 21, 2000, cat. 394; traveled to Houston, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, June 17-September 17, 2000.

Publication History

"Recent Acquisitions," Art Quarterly, 27 (1964), p. 218.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E9.

Patrick-André Guerretta, Pierre Louis de la Rive (1753-1817): Vie et Oeuvre Peint (Geneva, 2002).

Ownership History

François Renaud, Paris [Lugt suppl. 1042]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.