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Hubert Robert

Washerwomen in a Ruined Gallery

ca. 1760
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite
22.1 × 27.6 cm (8.7 × 10.9 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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