The Mouth of a Cave

1784

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 68 3/4 x 31 1/4 in. (174.6 x 79.4 cm)
Collection no.: 17.190.25
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Hubert Robert. The Mouth of a Cave. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Mouth of a Cave — Hubert Robert. 1784.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 68 3/4 x 31 1/4 in. (174.6 x 79.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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