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Vaulted Staircase
Hubert Robertc. 1770–1779
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Vaulted Staircase
- Creator: Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)
- Date Created: c. 1770–1779
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: Possibly Count Alexandre Stroganov [1733-1811], St. Petersburg, Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon [1747-1825; Lugt 779], Paris, (Pérignon, Paris, Objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon, May 1-19, 1826, no. 736), (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.504
- Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Inscriptions: 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
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 1926.504
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