Vaulted Staircase (c. 1770–79): Art, History and Details

Vaulted Staircase (c. 1770–79) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Vaulted Staircase
• Date: c. 1770–79
• Creator attribution: Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1926.504

Collection credit

Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.

Further reading listed by the museum

• Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon. Paris: Hippolyte Tilliard, 1826.
• Portalis, Roger. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1889.
• Sizer, Theodore. "A Drawing by Hubert Robert." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 9 (November 1927): 143-144.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.