id:			153785
accession number:	1987.8
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.8
updated:		2023-08-23 23:00:19.817000

Portrait of Hubert Robert, early 1900s. Copy after Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809). Terracotta; overall: 71 x 49 x 27.3 cm (27 15/16 x 19 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.); without base: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1987.8

title:				Portrait of Hubert Robert
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creation date:			early 1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1920
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	France, early 20th century
technique:	terracotta
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 71 x 49 x 27.3 cm (27 15/16 x 19 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.); without base: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Daniel Katz, Ltd. (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
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digital description:
James David Draper published this work in 1997 as a 19th-century copy after Pajou, one of a number of copies after the primary version in Valence, partly owing to the slightly stiffer carving of the Cleveland bust and the lack of psychological depth compared to the autograph version.  A thermoluminescence test, which determines the age of fired ceramics through small samples of the clay, proved that the work could not date before the late nineteenth century, and could easily date to the twentieth century.  Many of the copies after Pajou may well postdate Henri Stein's 1912 monograph, when the originals became available in photographic form, and the Cleveland bust is one of the stronger and most convincing examples.

wall description:
This sculpture captures the famously jovial and energetic character of the painter.
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RELATED WORKS

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.8/1987.8_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.8/1987.8_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.8/1987.8_full.tif