Hubert Robert
Effects of Sunlight, St. Peter's Colonnades

ArtistFrench, 1733–1808
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Effects of Sunlight, St. Peter's Colonnades
Datec. 1762
MediumPen and brown ink and brown wash with white pigment on laid paper, laid down on laid paper with blue (partially faded to green) laid paper border and ruled in black ink
DimensionsSheet: 6 11/16 × 8 1/4 in. (17 × 21 cm)
Frame: 13 5/16 × 15 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (33.8 × 38.6 × 5.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Guild in honor of its 42nd anniversary and in honor of Melva Martinez Meronek
Object number2023.190
Non exposé

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ProvenanceCollection of the artist; his sale, Paillet, Paris, 5 April 1809, probably part of lot 353 (perhaps folio 9-10, a page from the Roman sketchbook that the Musée du Louvre acquired in 1955); private collection, Paris; [Galerie Didier-Aaron, Paris, as of 2022-23]; purchased by MFAH, 2023
Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Titled in brown ink, left bottom edge: Effet de Soleil. Colonnade de St Pierre
Verso: [inaccessible]
Watermark at bottom center
Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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