id: 108829 accession number: 1926.504 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.504 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:07.627000 Vaulted Staircase, c. 1770–1779. Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1926.504 title: Vaulted Staircase title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770–1779 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1779 current location: creditline: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper, laid down on beige(1) board (18th-century mount?) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: by artist, center, in brown ink: [Villaporta?] / nel S[illegible] / [illegible] / Stroganoff; verso of secondary support, upper left, in red chalk: fragonard delt / Collection de M Denon Directeur du Musée Napoleon translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830 opening date: 1932-12-07T05:00:00 Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933). title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America opening date: 1935-01-01T05:00:00 Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1937-05-28T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937). title: Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance from Le Corbusier opening date: 1939-12-15T05:00:00 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). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums opening date: 1950-06-01T04:00:00 Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (June 1-September 15, 1950). title: Eighteenth Century Masterpieces opening date: 1952-12-12T05:00:00 Eighteenth Century Masterpieces. Society of the Four Arts (organizer) (December 12, 1952-January 4, 1953). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors opening date: 1978-11-19T05:00:00 Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 19, 1978-February 4, 1979). title: Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings opening date: 1979-05-31T04:00:00 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). title: Brush Drawings opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00 Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981). title: 18th Century Master Drawings opening date: 1981-10-06T04:00:00 18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981). title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-02-02T05:00:00 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). title: The Lessons of the Academy opening date: 1983-02-08T05:00:00 The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983). title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00 Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Possibly Count Alexandre Stroganov [1733-1811], St. Petersburg date: by 1779-by 1811 footnotes: *
According to artist's inscription on sheet.
citations: Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon [1747-1825; Lugt 779], Paris date: ?-1825 footnotes: *
As Fragonard. 
citations: (Pérignon, Paris, Objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon, May 1-19, 1826, no. 736) date: 1826 footnotes: *
Sold as Fragonard: "Un dessin à la plume et au lavis, au bistre, représentant un escalier sous des voûtes."
citations: (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1926 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1926- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon. Paris: Hippolyte Tilliard, 1826. page number: Mentioned: p. 178, no. 736 url: Portalis, Roger. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1889. page number: Mentioned: p. 300 url: Sizer, Theodore. "A Drawing by Hubert Robert." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 9 (November 1927): 143-144. page number: Mentioned: pp. 143-144; Reproduced: cover url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 55 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n59 Duvivier, Brett. "Intimate Aspects of Hubert Robert." International Studio (February 1928): pp. 74-79. page number: Reproduced: p. 77 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 167 url: Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Exh. Cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1935. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 87 url: Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance Through Le Corbusier. Exh. Cat. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939. page number: Mentioned: no. 62 url: Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawing from Midwestern Museums. Exh. Cat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950. page number: Mentioned: no. 45 url: Shoolman, Regina and Charles Slatkin. Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. page number: Mentioned: p. 96; Reproduced: plate 53 url: Boucher, François and Philippe Jaccottet. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Lausanne: Mermod, 1952. page number: Mentioned: p. 177; Reproduced: plate 102 url: Eighteenth Century Masterpieces. Exh. Cat. Palm Beach, FL: Society of the Four Arts, 1952. page number: Mentioned: no. 29 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 9 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 592 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n111 Milliken, William. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned: no. 129 url: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonné. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 3, p. 109, no. 1527 url: Berckenhagen, Ekhart. Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin: B. Hessling, 1970. page number: Mentioned: p. 333, under no. 6590 url: Carlson, Victor. Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 112, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 113 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 95 url: Rosenberg, Pierre and Marie-Anne Dupuy. Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon. Exh. Cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 515 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 3, p. 7, pp. 118-119, 289, no. 45; Reproduced: p. 119 url: Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope. Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family. Exh. Cat. Portland: Portland Art Museum, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 224 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.504/1926.504_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.504/1926.504_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.504/1926.504_full.tif