Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piece

Prints and Drawings

c. 1785

Hubert Robert
French, 1733-1808

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hubert Robert
Title: Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piece
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.: 1775–1808
Medium: Graphite and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove board
Dimensions: 49.2 × 31 cm (19 3/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Print and Drawing Club Fund
Reference Number: 1957.321
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E8.

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.

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.

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