About This Artwork

Hubert Robert, Style of
French, 1733-1808

Colonnade and Gardens of the Medici Palace, after 1870

Oil on panel
12 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (31.4 x 26.5 cm)
Inscribed lower right on riser of bottom step: H.R. 1785
Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge Restricted Gift in memory of Adelaide H. Ryerson., 1968.616

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1947, no. 119.

Chicago, Art Institute, Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, January 24–March 28, 1976, no. 15.

Publication History

Paysage d’Italie, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1947, no. 119, .ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1968–69, p. 16.

Art Institute of Chicago Calendar 1969, n.p.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 1970, pp. 61–62, 285.

John Maxon, et al., Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1976, pp. 10, 26, no. 15, ill.

Ownership History

Said to be in the collection of Comte de Baudoin [document from Jean Cailleux, Paris, in curatorial file]; Pierre Decourcelle, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 29–30, 1911, lot 43; Stettiner [inscribed in margin of Georges Petit catalogue]. Comte Charles de Rohan-Chabeot; Gabriel Cognacq collection; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11–13, 1952, lot 86. Guy Bolton, New York; E. V. Thaw and Co., New York; Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, by 1968; given to Art Institute, 1968.