About This Artwork
Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808
Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piecec. 1785
Graphite and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove board
492 x 310 mm
Print and Drawing Club Fund, 1957.321
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," 1972, cat. 128.
Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, "A Medley of Images: Art in the Age of Mozart," October 18-December 1, 1991.
Publication History
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E8.
Ownership History
Louis Deglatigny (died 1936), Rouen [Lugt suppl. 1768a]; probably sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 22-23, 1937, as Couple pres d'une cheminee [according to Lugt 1768a]. Sold by Stephen Higgins to the Art Institute, 1957.