Cleveland Museum of Art
Title Page
Hubert RobertLinkedCulture matchlcp-fa2807ee3020
- Date
- 1763–64
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 112067
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Derived from his own pen-and-ink drawings, this suite of etchings features fictional characters situated near recognizable buildings and statues in Rome. On the title page, Robert dedicated the suite to Marguerite Le Compte, who visited Rome in 1764 in the company of the wealthy author and art enthusiast Claude Henri Watelet. Both Le Compte and Watelet were amateur etchers, and they socialized with a group that included artists and printmakers centered at the academies in Italy. Robert’s dedication was likely motivated by the hope of future patronage from Le Compte. She may be the generous woman with a hand muff depicted in The Ancient Temple, the fifth scene in this series.
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.