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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 and red chalk over black- and 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), pp. 144, 146
  • Marguerite Beau, La Collection des dessins d’Hubert Robert au musée de Valence, Audin (Lyon, 1968), under cat. no. 28, pp. 144, 146, repr.
  • 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

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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