Title Page

Hubert Robert

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a title page with a central rectangle covered in vines and foliage. The rectangle contains a block of French text in four lines that read: "LES SOIRÉES DE ROME DÉDIÉES A M. LE COMTE". Below this are three more lines of text that read: "des Académies de S Luc de Rome, des Sciences et Arts de Bologne, Florence". The bottom of the rectangle contains two lines of smaller text on either side of a decorative line. The left text reads "Suite de Dix Planches" and the right text reads "gravées par M". The following line contains four centered words that read: "Robert, Pensionaire du Roi". The next line contains four centered words that read: "de France à Rome". The final line reads: "À Paris chez Wille". The bottom right of this line reads: " Graveur du Roi Quay des Augustins". The background behind the central rectangle depicts a cloudy sky above trees on the left and right.