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Article
Friendship tokens: Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s paintings for Madame de Pompadour
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 438–449
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Author:
Delaney, John K. (Delaney, John K.)
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Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
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Swicklik, Michael (Swicklik, Michael)
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Simplicity, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1759. Oil on canvas, 71.1 by 59.7 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Bridgeman Images).
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10. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.4.
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11. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.4.
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12. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.4.
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13. Detail of the Livret of the Salon of 1761, illustrated and annotated by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, p.25. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Paris).
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14. Details of Figs.1 and 2.
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15. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.2.
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16. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.2.
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17. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.2.
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18. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.2.
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19. Carlos Fernando FitzJames-Stuart, Marquess of Jamaica, by François-Hubert Drouais. 1765. Oil on canvas, 72.4 by 60.3 cm. (Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama).
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2. Simplicity, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Oil on canvas, 71.12 by 58.42 cm. (Sudeley Castle, Cheltenham).
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20. Portrait of Madeleine Barberie de Courteilles, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1759. Oil on canvas, 77.4 by 63 cm. (Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum, Braunschweig).
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21. Pompadour at her toilette, by François Boucher. 1750. Oil on canvas, 81.2 by 64.9 cm. (Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum; Bridgeman Images).
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22. The school mistress, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c.1765. Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush with black and brown ink washes on paper, 33 by 44.4 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Young shepherd holding a flower, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1761. Oil on canvas, 72.5 by 59.5 cm. (Petit Palais-Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris).
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4. Hyperspectral false colour image of Fig.1.
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5. The Pink Drawing Room, Basildon Park. c.1909. Photograph. (National Trust).
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6. Detail and IRR detail of Fig.1.
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7. Detail and hyperspectral false colour image of Fig.1.
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8. Detail and hyperspectral false colour of Fig.1.
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9. Detail and hyperspectral false colour of Fig.1.
Short Notice
Ménage de Pressigny and his art collection
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 157–161
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Author:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
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Illustrations
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1. Portrait of Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non, by Bihi-Almaric de Bréhan after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1773. Pastel on paper, 80 by 63 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Portrait of Anne-Pauline Le Breton (?), by Bihi-Almaric de Bréhan after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1773. Pastel on paper, 80 by 63 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Shipwreck on a rocky coast, by Claude- Joseph Vernet. 1775. Oil on canvas, 73.8 by 107.8 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Harbour scene at sunset, by Claude- Joseph Vernet. 1775. Oil on canvas, 73.8 by 107.8 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Sketch of Young woman lifting a veil, by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. 1777. (From Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de MM de l’Académie Royale dont l’Exposition a été ordonnée [. . .] suivant l’intention de Sa Majesté [. . .] pour l’année 1777 [. . .], Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Cabinet des estampes et de la photographie, Rés Yd2 1134, p.8).
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6. Young woman lifting a veil, by Nicolas-Guy Brenet. 1776. Oil on walnut panel, 27 by 21.5 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Old beggar and child, by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. 1774. Oil on canvas, 41.5 by 33 cm. (Horvitz Collection).
Article
‘The swing’ by Jean-Honoré Fragonard: new hypotheses
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 446–469
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Author:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
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Illustrations
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1. Les hazards heureux de l’escarpolette, by Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1782. Etching and engraving. 62.1 by 45.0 cm. (sheet). (Cleveland Museum of Art).
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10. Menacing Cupid, by Étienne-Maurice Falconet. 1757. Marble, height 185 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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11. Detail of Fig.2, showing the woman gesturing on the swing.
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12. The Neapolitan gesture, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1757. Oil on canvas, 73 by 94.3 cm. (Worcester Art Museum; Bridgeman Images).
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13. The sale of cupids, by Joseph-Marie Vien. 1763. Oil on canvas, 116 by 141 cm. (Château de Fontainebleau; Bridgeman Images).
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14. Duthé lying down, by Lié-Louis Périn-Salbreux. 1778. Oil on canvas, 65 by 75.8 cm. (Musée des beaux-arts, Reims).
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15. Detail of The well-loved mother, by Jean Massard after Jean- Baptiste Greuze. 1775. Engraving with etching on laid paper. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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16. Detail of Fig.2, showing the older man and the dog.
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17. Detail of Portrait of a young woman, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1770s. Oil on canvas. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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18. Detail of Woman with a dog, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1769. Oil on canvas. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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19. The drunken Silenus, accompanied by nymphs and satyrs, by Willem Panneels after Peter Paul Rubens. 1632. Etching, 14.7 by 15.3 (trimmed sheet). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. The swing, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1767. Oil on canvas, 81 by 64.2 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
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20. Coresus sacrificing himself to save Callirhoe, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1765. Oil on canvas, 309 by 400 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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21. Photomicrograph of The swing (taken near area of foliage in lower left). Photograph taken with a Leica M60 stereomicroscope at 20x magnification by painting conservator Martin Wyld.
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22. Detail of The confessional, by Pierre-Étienne Moitte after Pierre- Antoine Baudouin. 1777. Etching and engraving. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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23. Photomicrograph of The swing (taken in lower-left foliage). Photograph taken with a Leica M60 stereomicroscope at 20x magnification by painting conservator Martin Wyld.
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24. The swing, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1775–80. Oil on canvas, 215.9 by 185.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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25. The good mother, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1773–79. Oil on canvas, 49 by 39 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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26. Detail of Fig.24, showing the positions of the figural group.
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27. Rest on the flight into Egypt, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1781. Pen, black chalk and brown washes highlighted with watercolour on paper, 42.2 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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28. L’armoire (The wardrobe), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1778. Brown ink over black chalk, 34 by 46.5 cm. (Hamburger Kunsthalle).
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29. Le verrou (The bolt), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1778. Red chalk, brush, brown ink, touches of pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing line, 24 by 36.5 cm. (Courtesy Christie’s, New York).
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3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the younger man.
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30. Les hazards heureux de l’escarpolette, by Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1782. Etching and engraving, 38.8 by 30.4 cm. (Artstor).
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31. La bonne mère, by Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1779. Etching, 67.8 by 53.6 cm (sheet). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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32. Portrait of François-Marie Ménage de Pressigny. Oil on canvas, 60.5 by 49 cm. (Courtesy Galerie Noblesse des grands siècles, Paris / Valérie Pagé).
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33. La bascule (The see-saw), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1752. Oil on canvas, 120 by 94.5 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
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34. Detail of Le billet doux, by Nicolas Delaunay after Nicolas Lavreince. 1778. Etching and engraving. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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4. Detail of The swing, showing layers of yellow varnish partially removed.
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5. Blonde odalisque, by François Boucher. 1752. Oil on canvas, 59 by 73 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
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6. Woman urinating, by François Boucher. 1760s. Oil on canvas, 51.5 by 40.5 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Le Matin (Morning), by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. c.1767. Gouache over traces of graphite, paper pasted onto board, 25.9 by 19.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. The rising, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1770. Oil on canvas, 74 by 59 cm. (© Los Angeles County Museum of Art; collection of Lynda & Stewart Resnick, Los Angeles).
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9. Detail of Fig.2, showing the gesture of the sculpture of Cupid.
Article
Greuze’s greens: ephemeral colours, classical ambitions
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 269-279
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Author:
Berrie, Barbara H. (Berrie, Barbara H.)
Author:
Delaney, John K. (Delaney, John K.)
Author:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
Author:
Swicklik, Michael (Swicklik, Michael)
Subjects
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. A young woman praying at the altar of love [Votive offering to Cupid], by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1767. Oil on canvas. 145.5 by 113 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
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10. Broken eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1756. Oil on canvas, 73 by 94 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bridgeman Images).
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11. (Left) detail of Fig.3, showing the flower held by the shepherdess and (right) a false colour infra-red reflectance image of the same detail (red 1650 nm, green 1350 nm and blue 1000 nm).
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12. Colour wheel, possibly by André Félibien. Etching with hand colouring. (From C.B. [Claude Boutet?], Traité de la peinture en mignature, 2nd edn, The Hague 1708, image published between pp.154–55).
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13. Ange Laurent de la Live de Jully, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Probably 1759. Oil on canvas, 117 by 88.5 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington; photograph taken before treatment).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing the chair after the cleaning of the painting in 2014–15, before retouching.
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15. Cross section from the horizontal gilded chair rail in Fig.13.
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16. Composite image showing (clockwise from top left): a post-cleaning, pre-retouching detail of Fig.13; a false-colour hyperspectral image of the same detail; and the XRF maps for the chemical elements potassium (K) and calcium (Ca).
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17. Images of a cross section with visible light (top) and with UV-blue illumination (bottom) taken from the light blue highlight on the back chair cushion of Fig.13.
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2. Filial piety, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1763. Oil on canvas, 115 by 146 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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3. Simplicity, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1759. Oil on canvas, 71.1 by 59.7 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).
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4. Young shepherd holding a flower, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c.1761. Oil on canvas, 72.5 by 59.5 cm. (Petit Palais, Paris; Bridgeman Images) .
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5. The village betrothal, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1761. Oil on canvas, 92 by 117 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; René-Gabriel Ojeda).
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6. Girl with a dead canary, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1765. Oil on canvas, 53.3 by 46 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Bridgeman Images).
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7. A child with an apple, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c.1785. Oil on canvas, 40.6 by 32.1 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Cross section of a paint sample taken from the clump of blue leaves at the bottom-left corner of Fig.1.
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9. Paint sample taken from the clump of blue leaves at the bottom-left corner of Fig.1 and viewed from the surface using reflected (left) and fluorescence (right) microscopy.
Article
Becoming Hubert Robert: some new suggestions
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 244-253
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Author:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
Author:
Rayner, Kari (Rayner, Kari)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Arch of Septimius Severus, by Hubert Robert. 1756. Pen, grey and beige washes on paper, 73 by 52 cm. (Musée de Valence).
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10. Diagram of holes around the edges of Fig.8. The painting may have been mounted flush to a wall. A string (or multiple strings) may have been held between nails fixed to the two vanishing points at the positions shown here, and nails positioned in the holes.
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11. The old bridge, by Hubert Robert. 1760. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 100.3 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven).
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12. Studies of figures, by Hubert Robert. 1760. Black and red chalks on four sheets of paper mounted on a single sheet of paper, 45.2 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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13. Composite sheet of eight figure studies, by Hubert Robert. 1760. Red chalk on paper mounted on a single sheet of paper, 45 by 33 cm. (Private collection).
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14. The column, by Hubert Robert. 1789. Oil on canvas, 242.6 by 194.6 cm. (Saint Louis Art Museum).
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15. Detail of Fig.14, showing the figures.
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16. Detail of figures in A hermit praying in the ruins of a Roman temple, by Hubert Robert. c.1760. Oil on canvas, whole painting 57.8 by 70.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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17. X-radiograph of Fig.11. (Courtesy Eric Stegmaier, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven).
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18. The artist in his studio, by Hubert Robert. c.1759. Red chalk on paper, 33.3 by 44.1 cm. (Private collection).
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2a–b. Architectural capriccio with the Basilica of Constantine and Architectural capriccio with the Arco Degli Orefici next to San Giorgio in Velabro and the Arco di Giano. Bottom, left to right 2c–d. Architectural capriccio with the Temple of Faustina, the Arch of Titus and the walls of the Farnese Gardens and Architectural capriccio with the Temple of Venus, San Francesco Romano and the Basilica of Constantine beyond, by Hubert Robert. c.1754. Oil on canvas, each 75 by 99.5 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Colonnade and gardens at the Villa Medici with gentlemen sketching, by Hubert Robert. 1759. Oil on canvas, 75 by 63.8 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Remains of the Palace of Pope Julius, by Hubert Robert. 1759. Oil on canvas, 75 by 63.8 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Washerwomen in the ruins of the Colosseum, by Hubert Robert. Here dated c.1758. Oil on canvas, 45.1 by 57.8 cm. (Brooklyn Museum, New York).
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6. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.5. (Conservation Department, Brooklyn Museum, New York).
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7. The obelisk, by Hubert Robert. 1789. Oil on canvas, 243.8 by 194.2 cm. (Saint Louis Art Museum).
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8. Infra-red photograph of a detail of Fig.7. (Courtesy Clare Walker Winfield, Saint Louis Art Museum).
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9. Ponte Salario, by Hubert Robert. c.1775. Oil on canvas, 91.3 by 121 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).