
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004491Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
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.).
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
- 1781
- Medium
- Black chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 46.2 × 36.1 cm (18 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg, Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments
- Accession no.
- 1990.140
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