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Hubert Robert

Vaulted Staircase

c. 1770–79
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The inscription on the panel over the arched doorway seems to refer to Robert's Russian patron, Count Alexandre Sergevitch Stroganov, who was in Paris between 1770 and 1779 and commissioned a series of monumental paintings from Robert.

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