Hubert Robert
Le Grand Escalier (The Large Staircase)

ArtistFrench, 1733–1808
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Le Grand Escalier (The Large Staircase)
Date1761–1765
PlaceFrance
MediumPen and black ink, brush and gray wash and watercolor with traces of black chalk on laid paper with watermark
DimensionsSheet: 12 11/16 × 17 11/16 in. (32.3 × 45 cm)
Credit LineThe Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
Object number44.545
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Civilisation Revisited," Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, December 4, 1971–January 30, 1972.

"Master French Drawings," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 1972.

"Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1978–January 21, 1979.

"Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher," Virginia Museum, Richmond, November 10–December 28, 1981.

"Fragonard and His Friends," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, November 20, 1982–February 6, 1983.

"French Painting Exhibition," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, March 4–April 10, 1983.

"18th c Drawings & Illustration: Drawings by Fragonard & Gravelot," The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, May 15–July 28, 1985.

"Passion for Perfection: The Straus Collection of Renaissance Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–June 17, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Watermark, lower center: [shield with "W"]
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