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.
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
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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