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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piece
    Hubert Robert. Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piece, c. 1785. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002106

    Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piece

    by Hubert Robert

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    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.

    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.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E8.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Hubert Robert / French, 1733-1808
    Date
    c. 1785
    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.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Print and Drawing Club Fund
    Accession no.
    1957.321

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