HUBERT ROBERT. 1733-1808

74 THERMAE. 1778

Oil on canvas. 108 X 149 cm. Inv. No 1063 Signed and dated lower right: 7775, Robert A picture with a similar subject, entitled An Ancient Building in Use as a Public Bathhouse (The Hermitage, Inv. No 1262), was exhibited in the Salon of 1798.

Provenance: until 1924 The D. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibition: 1972 Prague, Cat. 32

Bibliography: C. Gabillot, Hubert Robert et son temps, Paris, 1895, pp. 104, 106, 272, 280; P. de Nolhac, Hubert Robert, Paris, 1910, pp. 144, 159; Т. Каменская, Гюбер Робер, Leningrad, 1939, p. 48

74 THERMAE. 1778

75 THE DESTRUCTION OF A TEMPLE

Oil on canvas. 87 X 69 cm. Inv. No 1076 The picture may be dated to the early 1790s. Provenance: 1876—1924 The Rumiantsev Museum, Moscow (gift of N. and V. Mukhanovs); since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 68; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 121; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 161; А. Новицкий, Художественная галерея Московского Публичного и Румянцевского музеев, Moscow, 1889, No 232 (entitled Ruins); Кат. Румянцевского музея 1912, No 37; Кат. Румянцевского музея 1915, No 529; Reau 1929, No 629

75 THE DESTRUCTION OF A TEMPLE

76 PYRAMIDS AND TEMPLE

Oil on canvas. 100 X 136 cm. Inv. No 1069

Signed lower left in imitation Greek letters:

РОВЕРТ ТО ЕДОУАА AIAAON

Edouard Dillon (1750—1839), a French aristocrat, took

part in the Revolutionary War (1775—83) and in

1789 emigrated from France.

Provenance: until 1924 The Hermitage, Petrograd;

since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibition: 1976 Rome, Dijon, Cat. 183

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 69

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77 FESTIVAL OF SPRING

Oil on canvas. 61 X 50 cm. Inv. No 1067 Signed lower right: H. Robert G. L. The subject is symbolic in meaning, and can be traced to the artist's release from confinement in 1794. A preparatory drawing for the picture, as well as a pendant to this drawing, on the theme Birds Being Imprisoned in a Cage, were in the Count Vallombrosa Collection. Another drawing with a slightly different composition is in the Musee Atger at Montpellier.

Provenance: until 1924 The Shuvalovs Collection, St Petersburg — Petrograd; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibition: 1914 Petrograd, Cat. 240 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 68; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 121; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 160; P. de Nolhac, Hubert Robert, Paris, 1910, pp. 80, 82; Ch. Saunier, "Le Musee Xavier Atger a Montpellier", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 5, 1922, p. 160; Reau 1929, No 643; Т. Каменская, Гюбер Робер, Leningrad, 1939, p. 46, ill.

77 FESTIVAL OF SPRING