1979.224: Artist Sketching in the Musei Capitolini, Rome

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.224

People

Jean-Robert Ango, French (active 1759 - after 1773)
Hubert Robert, French (Paris 1733 - 1808 Paris)
Previously attributed to Hubert Robert, French (Paris 1733 - 1808 Paris)

Title

Artist Sketching in the Musei Capitolini, Rome

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1762

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295246

Physical Descriptions

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

Technique

Counterproof

Dimensions

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

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in reverse, lower left, black chalk: 1762 [?] Romæ

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.224

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Thomas J. McCormick, Hubert Robert 1733-1808: Paintings and Drawings, brochure, Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1962), cat. no. 21, n.p.
• Marguerite Beau, La Collection des dessins d’Hubert Robert au musée de Valence, Audin (Lyon, 1968), under cat. no. 28, pp. 144, 146, repr.
• Marguerite Beau, La collection des dessins d’Hubert Robert au Musée de Valence, Audin (Lyon, 1968), pp. 144, 146
• Marianne Roland Michel, "L'art du dix-huitième siècle: un peintre français nommé Ango…", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (Paris, 1981), vol. 123, no. 935 (supplement), December, pp. i-viii, pp. iii, vi
• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 32, pp. 41-42, 110
• Jean de Cayeux, Les Hubert Robert de la Collection Veyrenc au Musée de Valence, exh. cat., Le Musée (Valence, 1985), pp. 144-46
• Marjorie B. Cohn, "Red Chalk: Historical and Technical Perspectives: Part 1, Aspects of Historical Usage", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, Abaris Books (New York, 1987), pp. 168, 170-n.33
• Marianne Roland Michel, Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle, Office du Livre (Fribourg, 1987), pp. 19-20
• Lisa Hall, "Counterproofs: An Investigation into the History, Materials, Techniques, and Uses of Red Chalk Counterproofs with an Examination of Other Methods of Copying" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-62 passim
• Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Pierre Rosenberg, J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1990), cat. no. 179, pp. 176, 252
• Bettina Bergmann, The Moon and the Stars, exh. cat., Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (South Hadley, 1999), cat. no. 42, pp. 18-19, 27
• Victor Carlson, "Hubert Robert in Rome: Some Pen-and-Wash Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Autumn 2001), vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 288-99, pp. 292-93, 299-n.11
• Daniela Gallo, "Gli scultori francesi e le antichità romane", Roma triumphans?: l'attualità dell'antico nella Francia del Settecento, ed. Letizia Norci Cagiano, Edizioni di storia e letteratura (Rome, 2007), pp. 275-96, p. 276-n.2
• Susanna Caviglia-Brunel, Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1700-1777, Arthena (Paris, 2012), p. 416
• Guillaume Faroult, ed., Hubert Robert, 1733-1808: un peintre visionnaire, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art and Musée du Louvre Éditions (Paris, 2016), pp. 146-47
• 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. 93, repr.; detail repr. p. 251
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "A Drawing by Hubert Robert and Jean Robert Ango: Correcting a Technical Description", Master Drawings (Winter 2024), vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 489-494, pp. 489-294, figs. 1, 3, 4, repr. on back cover

Exhibition History

• Hubert Robert 1733-1808: Paintings and Drawings, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 10/09/1962 - 11/11/1962
• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984
• J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, Academie de France a Rome, Rome, 12/06/1990 - 02/24/1991
• The Moon and the Stars: Afterlife of a Roman Empress, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, 09/04/1999 - 12/29/1999
• Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010
• HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #1: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/14/2011 - 03/05/2011
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/2023 - 10/23/2023

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