Plate 3: The Statue Before the Ruins: a statue to left next to three figures on a pedestal, a beggar standing in an archway to right, four columns and the remains of an entablature to top left, from "Les soirées de Rome"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Les soirées de Rome
Artist: Hubert Robert
Artist bio: French, Paris 1733–1808 Paris
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: French
Date: ca. 1763–64
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 7/8 in. (13.7 × 9.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession year: 2012
Tags: Human Figures|Sculpture|Architecture|Ruins