Scene with Antique Ruins / Hubert Robert / After Hubert Robert
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.183
- Title
- Scene with Antique Ruins
- Artist
- Hubert Robert
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1733-1808
- Medium and Support
- red crayon on heavy laid paper
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Dimensions
- 36.04 cm x 29.21 cm (14 3/16 in. x 11 1/2 in.)
- Physical Description
- This red-chalk drawing depicts a draped male figure standing with his arms crossed gazing up at a large column with a large urn on top of it amidst classical ruins. Other spoiled sections of columns and an ornate capital are piled next to the central column. The darkly shaded foreground contrasts with the light sky, which takes up the upper three-quarters of the composition.
- Subject Matter
- A man contemplating antique ruins.
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- buildings and the land
- columns and column components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- single built works
- single built works by condition
- single built works by specific type
- structural elements
- structural elements and structural element components
- supporting and resisting elements
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2398 x 3000
- File Size
- 963 KB
- Record
- 2012/2.183
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.183/2012_2_183.jpg
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"Scene with Antique Ruins; Hubert Robert; After Hubert Robert." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.183/2012_2_183.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.