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The Portico of a Country Mansion  1773

by Hubert Robert

This painting commissioned by a financier, Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1775. [br] Among Robert’s exhibits at the 1775 Salon was a pair of paintings listed under number 71 as belonging to Monsieur de Frouville. The full description, in translation, was "Two Paintings, one The Return of the Cattle under the Ruins in the Setting S...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art