Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002408Temple of Vespasian
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1977), no. 2E6.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hubert Robert / French, 1733-1808
- Date
- 1762
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest from the estate of Everett D. Graff
- Accession no.
- 1965.255
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