Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006109The Nest Robber
Inscriptions
Inscribed on the stone to the left: "SIC VOS/ NON VOBIS/ NIDIFICATIS/ AVES"
Provenance
Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1989 [stamp, not in Lugt]. Sold, Sotheby's, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Jan. 25, 2012; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Valence, Musée des Beaux-Arts, "Hubert Robert (1733-1808) et Saint-Pétersbourg, les commandes de la famille Impériale et des princes russes entre 1773 et 1802," 1999, cat. 49. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Jean de Cayeux, Hubert Robert (Paris 1989), p. 333.
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
- 1780s
- Medium
- Red chalk, with touches of orange chalk, with touches of pen and brown ink, on cream laid paper, incised with a compass, laid down on blue wove board
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 36.3 × 28.7 cm (14 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 44.5 × 37 cm (17 9/16 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1013
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