Updated 14 April 2025
On Display Special Exhibition Wing
On Display
Special Exhibition Wing
An Architectural Capriccio of the Roman Forum with Philosophers and Soldiers among Ancient Ruins, including the Arch of Janus Quadrifrons, the Sarcophagus of Santa Constanza, the Farnese Hercules and the Cincinnatus
| Date | ca. 1745-50 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame |
| Size（cm） | 98.4 x 135 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.2010-0001 |
Provenance
In the collection of Baron Penrhyn at Penrhyn Castle, North Wales, in whose collection believed to have entered in circa 1860; First recorded by Lady Alice Douglas Pennant in her ‘Catalogue of the Pictures at Penrhyn Castle and Mortimer House in 1901’, private family publication, Bangor 1902, no. 22; Recorded in the ‘Inventory and Valuation for Probate Purposes of Edward Sholto, Baron Penrhyn, at Penrhyn Castle, Bangor’, inventory compiled 1 December 1927 – 19 January 1928, by John Pritchard & Co., Bangor, p. 179, no. 22; Recorded in the ‘Inventory and Valuation for Probate Purposes of Hugh Napier, Fourth Baron Penrhyn’, compiled December 1949 – January 1950, by John Pritchard & Co., Bangor, p. 112, as no. 22; Private collection, England; Purchased by the NMWA, 2010.
Exhibition History
- 2012
- Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps, The National Museum of Western Art, 6 March 2012 - 20 May 2012, cat. no. 13
- 2019
- A Passion for Antiquity: Archeology and Art in the Eighteenth Century Italy, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2 October 2019 - 17 November 2019, cat. no. 45
Bibliography
- 1901
- Catalogue of the Pictures at Penrhyn Castle and Mortimer House. Private publication, 1901
- 1928
- Inventory and Valuation for Probate Purposes of Edward Sholto, Baron Penrhyn, at Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, inventory compiled 1 December 1927 - 19 January 1928, by John Pritchard & Co., Bangor, p. 179, no. 22.
- 1950
- Inventory and Valuation for Probate Purpose of Hugh Napier, Forth Baron Penrhyn, compiled December 1949 - January 1950, by John Pritchard & Co., Bangor, p. 112, as no. 22.
- 2012
- Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, eds. [Tokyo/ Fukuoka/ Shizuoka], The National Museum of Western Art; Western Art Foundation; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, 2012, pp. 74-75, 304, cat. no. 13, col. repr.
- 2012
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 45 (Apr. 2010-Mar. 2011), 2012, Takanashi, Mitsumasa. New Acquisitions. pp. 8-12, List of New Acquisitions. p. 55, repr.
- 2013
- Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 62, col. repr.
- 2019
- A Passion for Antiquity: Archeology and Art in the Eighteenth Century Italy(exh. cat.). Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, c2019, cat. no. 45, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 89, 180, cat. no. Y2_50 | T2_53, col. repr.