id: 128876 accession number: 1951.485 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.485 updated: 2022-01-04 15:43:31.546000 Roman Ruins, Villa Pamfili, 1774. Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808). Pen and black ink and watercolor with black chalk underdrawing and heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Harry D. Kendrick 1951.485 title: Roman Ruins, Villa Pamfili title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1774 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1774 current location: creditline: Gift of Harry D. Kendrick copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: Pen and black ink and watercolor with black chalk underdrawing and heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: European Watercolors Through the 18th Century opening date: 1964-01-16T05:00:00 European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 22, 1964). title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). title: French Drawings opening date: 1965-11-10T05:00:00 French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 1965-February 16, 1966). 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: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-01-25T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 16, 1982). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). 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: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Minneapolis Institute of Arts (May 1 - June 15, 1952). --- PROVENANCE Private Coll., France date: footnotes: citations: Wildenstein & Co., NY date: footnotes: citations: H. G. Dalton, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: H. D. Kendrick, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: Private Coll., France; (Wildenstein & Co., NY); H. G. Dalton, Cleveland; H. D. Kendrick, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: While living in Italy, Robert developed a fondness for classical architecture, making countless drawings that served as the basis for paintings and prints for decades after he returned to Paris. Denis Diderot (1713–1784), a French philosopher and art critic, nicknamed the artist “Robert of Ruins” due to Robert’s enduring interest in the subject. A quaint commentary on the passage of time, this drawing portrays the activities of contemporary life among the weathered remains of an ancient Roman building. Despite the traditional title of the drawing, there is no evidence that such ruins ever existed at the Villa Pamphili. The towering columns supporting a decorative frieze may instead derive from the Roman Forum’s Temple of Saturn. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1953." Art Quarterly 16, no. 4 (Winter 1953): 346-365. page number: Mentioned: p. 353 url: Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Exh. Cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1952. page number: Mentioned: no. 23 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 156 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n180 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 156 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n180 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 186 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n206 Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, and Stephen Ongpin. Master Drawings 2018.
London : Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. [88], p. [178] url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.485/1951.485_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.485/1951.485_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.485/1951.485_full.tif