The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 17, 2025
Portrait of Hubert Robert
early 1900s
copy after Augustin Pajou
Overall: 71 x 49 x 27.3 cm (27 15/16 x 19 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.); without base: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1987.8
Location: Not on view
Description
James David Draper published this work in 1997 as a 19th-century copy after Pajou, one of a number of copies after the primary version in Valence, partly owing to the slightly stiffer carving of the Cleveland bust and the lack of psychological depth compared to the autograph version. A thermoluminescence test, which determines the age of fired ceramics through small samples of the clay, proved that the work could not be dated before the late 19th century, and could easily date to the 20th century. Many of the copies after Pajou may well postdate Henri Stein's 1912 monograph, when the originals became available in photographic form, and the Cleveland bust is one of the stronger and most convincing examples.- Daniel Katz, Ltd. (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71. Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned: p. 65, no. 25 www.jstor.org
- The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
- {{cite web|title=Portrait of Hubert Robert|url=false|author=Augustin Pajou|year=early 1900s|access-date=17 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1987.8