Vaulted Staircase
Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)
c. 1770–79
Medium
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Accession Number
1926.504
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.