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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781
    Hubert Robert. Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781, 1781. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004491

    Ruins of the Opera After the Fire of 1781

    by Hubert Robert

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

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    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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