Ruined Farm, c. 1770/1775

Not on View

pen and black ink with gray and brown wash, and blue watercolor, over a black chalk counterproof, with black chalk additions, on laid paper

Overall: 36.5 x 29 cm (14 3/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
support: 45.7 x 37.6 cm (18 x 14 13/16 in.)

1963.15.27

Hubert Robert (artist) French, 1733 - 1808

lower left: Robert; in later hand, upper left verso: No 705 / H-Robert; lower right verso in brown ink: hubert Robert AD No196

Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1933 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Owen, Richard

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: p.340: dK243, fig.304.

1978: Carlson, Victor. Hubert Robert Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 33.