Study for Three Women in "Terrace of the Chateau de Marly"

Artist Hubert Robert (French, 1733 - 1808)

Dateca. 1780

MediumBlack chalk

DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 × 8 5/8 inches (16.83 × 21.91 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number55-81

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

The Human Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 30, 2010-June 5, 2011.

Gallery Label

This is a study for Robert’s painting Imaginary View of the Terrace at the Chateau of Marly (31-97) in the museum’s collection. In the painting the figures look slightly different. The woman on the right is in profile instead of looking out, and the center woman gestures with her right arm instead of clasping her walking stick. The artist probably made this study to explore ideas for the poses of the figures and to work out the details of their fashionable costumes.

Provenance

Debar Collection;

Purchased from Cailleux, Paris, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.

Published References

“Advertisement: Cailleux, Master Paintings and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century,” The Burlington Magazine 97, no. 626 (May 1955): x, (repro.), as Three ladies of quality.

“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: July-September 1955,” The Art Quarterly 19, no. 1 (1956): 74, as study for three figures in “Terrace of the Chateau [sic] de Marly.”

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