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The Ruined Bridge

Artist Hubert Robert (French, 1733 - 1808)
Date18th century
MediumBrown ink with brown and gray wash
DimensionsOverall: 16 3/8 × 11 5/8 inches (41.59 × 29.53 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/68
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Exhibition History

Landscape Painting from Patinir to Hubert Robert, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1941, no. 61.

Hubert Robert, 1733-1808: Paintings and Drawings, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1962, no. 33.

Kansas City Collects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 1965, no. 73.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 64, as The Ruined Bridge.

Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert and Boucher, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, November 10-December 27, 1981.

Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Washington University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as The Ruined Bridge.

Looking at Historic Lands: Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-June 10, 2012.

Provenance

Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. (1868-1953), Princeton, NJ;

Winslow (1907-1990) and Anna (née Gerhard, 1907-1997) Ames, Saunderstown, RI;

Baker of Bath [?];

F. Delius Giese, New York, by 1954;

With Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1981;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

Georges de Batz, Landscape Painting from Patinir to Hubert Robert, exh. cat. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 1941).

Hubert Robert, 1733-1808: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat. (Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 1962).

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 36-37, (repro.), as The Ruined Bridge.

New York Times (Art section) (November 29, 1981): (repro.).

Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert and Boucher, exh. cat. (Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1981).

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Museum of Art, 1989), (repro.), 11, 46, (repro.), as The Ruined Bridge 

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