The drawing depicts a man from the waist up. He faces slightly to the right with a serious expression, distinctive facial features, white curly hair swept back, and is wearing a dark coat over a layered ensemble including a high-collared shirt, waistcoat, and scarf. He holds a dark folder tied with a ribbon in his hands. The background is plain and dark.
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Hubert Robert

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767 - 1855)

1787

Medium
black chalk and stumping, heightened with white gouache on wove paper, wrapped around a drawing block prepared by Niodot fils
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
image: 26.5 x 20.7 cm (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 in.) ; overall (sheet): 32.3 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of John Morton Morris
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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