About This Artwork
Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808
An Artist Seated in the Ruins of the Colosseum, c. 1759
Red chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
417 x 540 mm
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Print and Drawing Department Purchase Fund, 1982.45
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 102-103, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Ownership History
By descent to the artist's wife [Paris 1933]. G. W. Riggs (died 1888), from 1860 [Paris 1933]; by descent to Mlle. De L... [Paris 1933]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 22, 1933, lot 28. Poulet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 3, 1965, lot 50. Sold by William Schab, New York, to the Art Institute, 1982.