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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Vaulted Staircase
    Hubert Robert. Vaulted Staircase, c. 1770–79. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011017

    Vaulted Staircase

    by Hubert Robert

    Also known as: Sketch of an Imaginary Roman Building

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    About the Artwork

    The inscription on the panel over the arched doorway seems to refer to Robert's Russian patron, Count Alexandre Sergevitch Stroganov, who was in Paris between 1770 and 1779 and commissioned a series of monumental paintings from Robert.

    Inscriptions

    by artist, center, in brown ink: [Villaporta?] / nel S[illegible] / [illegible] / Stroganoff; verso of secondary support, upper left, in red chalk: fragonard delt / Collection de M Denon Directeur du Musée Napoleon

    Provenance

    by 1779–by 1811: Possibly Count Alexandre Stroganov [1733-1811], St. Petersburg ?-1825: Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon [1747-1825; Lugt 779], Paris 1826: (Pérignon, Paris, Objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon, May 1-19, 1826, no. 736) ?-1926: (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 1926-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

    Exhibition history

    Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933). Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937). Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance from Le Corbusier. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (December 15, 1939-January 8, 1940). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (June 1-September 15, 1950). Eighteenth Century Masterpieces. Society of the Four Arts (organizer) (December 12, 1952-January 4, 1953). Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 19, 1978-February 4, 1979). Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979). Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981). 18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981). French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983). Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art 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. 1770–79
    Medium
    pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 44.1 x 28.2 cm (17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.9 x 38.7 cm (20 13/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
    Accession no.
    1926.504

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