Provenance

Charles Philippe, comte d'Artois, château de Bagatelle, near Paris, until 1789
at Bagatelle (abandoned and then nationalized and sold, 1789–96
Lieuthraud, or Leuthraud, called marquis de Beauregard, Bagatelle, 1796–97
André Lhéritier and the Société des entrepreneurs de fêtes, 1797–1806
at Bagatelle (purchased by Napoleon's Administration des Domaines, 1806)
sale, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, Clisorius and Masson jeune, 4ff. April 1808, nr. 151, to Brunot
?with Jacques Nicolas Brunot, from 1808
Pierre Justin Armand Verdier, comte de Flaux, château de Flaux, near Uzès, until died 1883
Édouard Henri Roger Verdier, comte de Flaux, château de Flaux, 1883–died 1898
Clémence Pascal Verdier, comtesse douairière de Flaux, château de Flaux, 1898–died 1908
estate under arbitration, 1908–10
Eliane Berger, Roger de Flaux's daughter, 1910–11 offered for sale to MMA and J. Pierpont Morgan through Maurice de Verneuil
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1911–died 1913
his estate, 1913–17
on loan to MMA from May 1912

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 17.190.27

Other works by Hubert Robert

The Arc de Triomphe and the Theater in Orange
1787

The Villa Madama near Rome
1760s

Rome, Piazza del Campidoglio, at night, with the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius and figures lighting bonfires

The Grande Galerie of the Louvre between 1794 and 1796
1794-96

The Return of the Cattle
ca. 1773-75