id: 108829 accession number: 1926.504 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.504 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:02.135000 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 11, 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 (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: 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. wall description: Hubert Robert was known for his drawings of antiquities and architecture throughout Italy, many of which were rendered in red chalk. Here, he departed from his usual technique, taking up brown ink and wash to create deep recession of space and shadows. Robert spent more than ten years in Rome, and often drew throughout the city. He sketched its monuments on site and, more significantly, created his own imagined variations based on the Roman architectural vocabulary, as is the case here. --- 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