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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 35 (2000)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 35

"Drawings by Hubert Robert in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Some Restored Attributions"

Stein, Perrin
2000
13 pages
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Perrin Stein

Perrin Stein oversees the collection of French drawings, prints, and illustrated books before 1800. She came to The Met in 1995 following three years as assistant curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has organized and contributed to numerous exhibition and collection catalogues, including Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (1999), The Wrightsman Pictures (2005), French Drawings from the British Museum: Clouet to Seurat (2005), Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780 (2007), Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France (2013), and Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant (2016).

Selected publications

Washerwomen in a Ruined Gallery, Hubert Robert  French, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite
Hubert Robert
ca. 1760
Young Women in a Landscape with Architectural Fragments, Hubert Robert  French, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray, and blue wash, over red chalk counterproof
Hubert Robert
ca. 1773
Architectural Capriccio with Roman Monuments and Washerwomen, Hubert Robert  French, Pen and black and gray ink, with brush and brown wash, and watercolor
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert
n.d.
Visitors leaving a prison, Hubert Robert  French, Pen and dark gray ink, brush and gray wash with watercolor over black chalk underdrawing; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Hubert Robert
1794–95
Sacrifice in a Classical Building, Anonymous, French, 18th century  French, Pen and ink and bistre wash on paper
Anonymous, French, 18th century
18th Century