Capriccio with an Ancient Temple

ca. 1756

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor over pen and black ink, traces of black chalk underdrawing on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions: sheet: 22 3/16 x 16 1/4 in. (56.4 x 41.3 cm)
Collection no.: 2009.378
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Hubert Robert. Capriccio with an Ancient Temple. Hubert Robert; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Capriccio with an Ancient Temple — Hubert Robert. ca. 1756.

Medium: Watercolor over pen and black ink, traces of black chalk underdrawing on off-white antique laid paper. Dimensions: sheet: 22 3/16 x 16 1/4 in. (56.4 x 41.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009.

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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