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View to the Piazza
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WMET0230
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
View of the Campidoglio with the Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor over red chalk counterproof; 17 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.; 1762
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.695
Robert is known to have made counterproofs of his drawings to reproduce a unique work of art in duplicate. In this instance, he took a red-chalk drawing and ran it through a press against a blank sheet of paper, resulting in the same image in reverse. Counterproofs were customarily reworked in other media, here in pen, black ink, and watercolor. This drawing was strengthened with red ochre wash to denote half tones, white wash to emphasize the brilliantly lit middle ground, and blue-green watercolor to accentuate the walls framing the doorway. The figures were then heavily reworked with pen and black ink.
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
View of the Campidoglio with the Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor over red chalk counterproof; 17 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.; 1762
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.695
Robert is known to have made counterproofs of his drawings to reproduce a unique work of art in duplicate. In this instance, he took a red-chalk drawing and ran it through a press against a blank sheet of paper, resulting in the same image in reverse. Counterproofs were customarily reworked in other media, here in pen, black ink, and watercolor. This drawing was strengthened with red ochre wash to denote half tones, white wash to emphasize the brilliantly lit middle ground, and blue-green watercolor to accentuate the walls framing the doorway. The figures were then heavily reworked with pen and black ink.
