Hubert Robert
1733-1808
View of the Temple of Neptune and the Basilica at Paestum
13 5/16 x 19 1/16 inches (340 x 483 mm)
Red chalk on paper.
1982.103
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
Notes
This drawing can be related to the artist's view of Paestum in the Abbé de Saint-Non's "Voyage pittoresque", which is also in the collection of the Library (Acc. No. PML 62643).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, in red chalk, "Roberti 1760"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, possibly by the artist, at lower center, "vue d'est (?) des Temples de", and, in a different ink, "a" (superimposed over the "de") "pestum" and "Roberti f(?)".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis within a circle, surmounted by a crown.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis within a circle, surmounted by a crown.
Associated names
Stein, Adolphe, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 294.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 102, repr.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 16, repr. in color.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 102, repr.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 16, repr. in color.
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Century Drawings
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