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Vaulted Staircase

c. 1770–1779

Hubert Robert

(French, 1733–1808)

France, 18th century

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink

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.)

Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1926.504

Location: not on view

Description

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.

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
Provenance Footnotes
1 According to artist's inscription on sheet.
2 As Fragonard.
3 Sold as Fragonard: "Un dessin à la plume et au lavis, au bistre, représentant un escalier sous des voûtes."
Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon. Paris: Hippolyte Tilliard, 1826. Mentioned: p. 178, no. 736
Portalis, Roger. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1889. Mentioned: p. 300
Sizer, Theodore. "A Drawing by Hubert Robert." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 9 (November 1927): 143-144. Mentioned: pp. 143-144; Reproduced: cover
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 55 archive.org
Duvivier, Brett. "Intimate Aspects of Hubert Robert." International Studio (February 1928): pp. 74-79. Reproduced: p. 77
Francis, Henry Sayles. "Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 10 (December 1932): 166-169. Mentioned: p. 167
Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Exh. Cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1935. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 87
Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance Through Le Corbusier. Exh. Cat. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939. Mentioned: no. 62
Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawing from Midwestern Museums. Exh. Cat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950. Mentioned: no. 45
Shoolman, Regina and Charles Slatkin. Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Mentioned: p. 96; Reproduced: plate 53
Boucher, François and Philippe Jaccottet. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Lausanne: Mermod, 1952. Mentioned: p. 177; Reproduced: plate 102
Eighteenth Century Masterpieces. Exh. Cat. Palm Beach, FL: Society of the Four Arts, 1952. Mentioned: no. 29
Francis, Henry S. "'Roman Ruins, Villa Pamfili': A Water-Color Drawing by Hubert Robert." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 1 (January 1956): 9-11. Mentioned: p. 9
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 592 archive.org
Milliken, William. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: no. 129
Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonné. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 3, p. 109, no. 1527
Berckenhagen, Ekhart. Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin: B. Hessling, 1970. Mentioned: p. 333, under no. 6590
Carlson, Victor. Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1978. Mentioned: p. 112, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 113
Deriabina, Ekaterina. "Hubert Robert et les collectionneurs russes." In. Hubert Robert et Saint-Pétersbourg, 1733-1808: Les commandes de la famille impériale et des princes russes entre 1773 et 1802, 93-107. Exh. Cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999. Mentioned: p. 95
Rosenberg, Pierre and Marie-Anne Dupuy. Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon. Exh. Cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999. Mentioned: p. 515
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: p. 3, p. 7, pp. 118-119, 289, no. 45; Reproduced: p. 119
Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope. Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family. Exh. Cat. Portland: Portland Art Museum, 2000. Mentioned: p. 224
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).
French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).
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).
18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).
Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981).
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).
Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 19, 1978-February 4, 1979).
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).
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) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
Eighteenth Century Masterpieces. Society of the Four Arts (organizer) (December 12, 1952-January 4, 1953).
Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (June 1-September 15, 1950).
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).
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) (May 28-December 9, 1937).
Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935).
Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).
Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).
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