About This Artwork
Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808
Temple of Vespasian, 1762
Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
451 x 339 mm
Bequest from the estate of Everett D. Graff, 1965.255
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Museum, "French Artists in Italy," October 15-November 28, 1971, cat. 21.
South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame University, 1972, cat. 77.
Rome, Villa Medici, "Hubert Robert et Fragonard à Rome," December 6, 1990-February 24, 1991, cat. 108.
Publication History
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1977), no. 2E6.
Ownership History
Sold by Paul Chevalier, Paris, to Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1948 [according to a letter from Galerie Cailleux and correspondence with Marianne Roland Michel]. Private collection, France, to 1961 [according to correspondence with Eberhard Kornfeld]. Sold, Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, June 7, 1961, anonymous sale, lot 180. Bequeathed by Everett D. Graff, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1965.