About the Artwork
Park Scene
18th century
Hubert Robert
1733-1808
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 13 5/8 × 15 5/8 inches (34.6 × 39.7 cm) Framed: 17 3/8 × 19 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (44.1 × 49.2 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
28.93
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France)
1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Walther, Josephin. “Eighteenth Century French Paintings,” Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 1 (October 1928): pp. 1, 4, 5 (cover ill.).
Booth, Ralph et al. “The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1928: List of Accessions,” Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 5 (October 1928): pp. 66-69, p. 67.
“Detroit,” American Art Annual 26 (1929): p. 143.
Heil, Walter. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 190 (ill.).
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Catalogue of Paintings. 1944, p. 111, no. 190.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, et al. “The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1949: Care of the Collection,” Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 2 (1949-1950): pp. 37-38, p. 37.
Rosenberg, Pierre and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings, 1500-1825. cat., The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1987, p. 262, (fig. 1) (ill.) [cited under cat. pp. 261-261].
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Hubert Robert, Park Scene, 18th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.93.
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