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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Gift of Adolphus C. Bartlett Source

31 Lot

Hubert Robert

French, 1733-1808

The Old Temple

Date: 1787/88
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 255 × 223.2 cm (100 3/8 × 87 7/8 in.); Framed: 265.5 × 233.4 cm (104 1/2 × 91 7/8 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated lower right
Department: Old Master Paintings

Estimate £400,000 – 600,000

Offered in Old Masters, Antiquities & Arms, 27 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, France
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1789

Literature

Recorded in the artist's Salon livret

Condition

Lined. Scattered stable craquelure; the architectural passages are unabraded.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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