Temple of Vespasian

Prints and Drawings

1762

Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hubert Robert
Title: Temple of Vespasian
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.: 1762–1808
Medium: Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 45.1 × 33.9 cm (17 13/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest from the estate of Everett D. Graff
Reference Number: 1965.255
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1977), no. 2E6.

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.

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.

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