Vaulted Staircase
Hubert Robert
1765–1784
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 44.1 x 28.2 cm (17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.9 x 38.7 cm (20 13/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Drawings
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 18th century
About
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.
![Buildings along a Riverside [verso]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/786eca2f-8596-49db-8fe3-a234891d55b0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![Figures on a Monumental Interior Stairway [recto]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/592899a9-6520-4b3f-bdf7-210741acfa2e/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
