Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781

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Prints and Drawings

1781

Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hubert Robert
Title: Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1781–1808
Medium: Black chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 46.2 × 36.1 cm (18 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg, Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments
Reference Number: 1990.140
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Denys Sutton, “French Drawings of the Eighteenth Century”, Burlington Magazine, 93:574 (Jan. 1951), pp. 27,29, image 23 (ill.).
F. Boucher, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle (Lausanne, 1952), no. 110 (ill.).
Jean Montague Massengale, “Hubert Robert Drawings and Water-Colours at the National Gallery of Art, Washington”, Burlington Magazine, 121:910 (Jan. 1979), pp. 64-68, Image 87 (ill.).
Marianne Roland Michel, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1987), no. 273 (ill.).
Nina Dubin, Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert (Getty Publications, 2010), pp. 65-66, fig. 25 (ill.).

Paris, Musée de Orangerie, “Hubert Robert,” 1933, cat. 179.
London, Mathiessen Gallery, “French Master Drawings of the 18th Century,” 1950, no. 77.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, “Dessins Francais de Watteau a Prud’hon,” 1951, no. 123.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, “Hommage a Hubert Robert,” 1967, no. 30.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors,” November 19, 1978-January 21, 1979, pp. 126-127, cat. 50 (ill.).
New York, The Frick Collection, “From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 32; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Hubert Robert”, June 26 - October 2, 2016, pp. 172, 243, cat. 80 (ill.), cat. by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall, et. al.

Georges Haumont, Sevres, by 1933 [Paris 1933]. Galerie Cailleux (Jean de Cayeux), Paris, by 1952 [Boucher 1952, stamp (Lugt 4461) recto, lower right, in black ink]; sold to the Art Institute, 1990.

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