DrawingsFrench18th century

Artist Sketching in the Musei Capitolini, Rome

c. 1762

Artists

Jean-Robert AngoArtist

Hubert RobertArtist

Hubert RobertPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Technique

Counterproof

Medium

Black chalk, gray ink and touches of brown wash over red chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

34.1 x 45 cm (13 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Achille Leclère, Paris; Lucien Goldschmidt, New York (as Hubert Robert); Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, (by 1965); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer, inv. no. 1979.224

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