Harvard Art Museums > 1978.35: Architectural Capriccio with the Laocoön Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Architectural Capriccio with the Laocoön (Hubert Robert) , 1978.35,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 12, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/295265. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1978.35 People Hubert Robert, French (Paris 1733 - 1808 Paris) Title Architectural Capriccio with the Laocoön Other Titles Former Title: Roman Ruins with the Laocoön Former Title: Roman Ruins with Thermae in the Background Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 18th-19th century Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/295265 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink and gray wash with watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink Dimensions 33.2 x 48 cm (13 1/16 x 18 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in drawing, lower right, on base of Laocoön, gray ink: H. ROBERT DELINEABAT inscription: in drawing, on wall, upper right, gray ink: IMMENSIS ORBIBUS AN / LAOCOONTA PETUNT ET PRIMUM / CORPORA NATORUM SERPENS A / IMPLICAT ET MISEROS [illegible] ORSU [illegible] inscription: signed, in drawing, lower right, on base of Laocoön, black ink: H. ROBERT DELINEABAT inscription: in drawing, lower left, on leftmost architectural fragment, black ink: P Q R / REMPVBLICAN [illegible] inscription: in drawing, lower left, on architectural fragment nearest stairs, black ink: S / ON / INC / NO watermark: AI [countermark; fragmentary] Provenance Recorded Ownership History The artist’s estate; his estate sale, Paillet et Olivier, Paris, 5-12 April 1809, part of lot 246, sold; to Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, Paris; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903, inv. no. 1978.35. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903 Accession Year 1978 Object Number 1978.35 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Lucy M. MacClintock and Barbara Matilsky, Summary of an Exhibition of the Mrs. Herbert N. Straus Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1978), cat. no. 59, n.p. Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall, ed., Hubert Robert, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Lund Humphries (Washington, 2016), cat. no. 95, pp. 252-53 Guillaume Faroult, ed., Hubert Robert, 1733-1808: un peintre visionnaire, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art and Musée du Louvre Éditions (Paris, 2016), cat. no. 63, pp. 63, 252-53 Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 96, repr., p. 17 Exhibition History Exhibition of the Mrs. Herbert N. Straus Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/13/1978 - 06/17/1978 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/26/2022 - 01/09/2023 Hubert Robert, 1733-1808: un peintre visionnaire, Musée du Louvre, 75058 Paris Cedex 01, 03/08/2016 - 05/30/2016; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/26/2016 - 10/02/2016 Hubert Robert, National Gallery of Art, 06/26/2016 - 10/02/2016 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu