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Hubert Robert (French pronunciation: [ybɛʁ ʁɔbɛʁ]; 22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.
View all 39 artworks. Hubert Robert lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of French Rococo. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- French
- May 22, 1733
- Paris, France
- April 15, 1808
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Hubert Robert died in his studio at Auteuil of an attack of apoplexy on April 15, 1808, at the age of seventy-five. An exhaustive catalogue of his paintings,
A 1788 portrait of Robert by his close friend and fellow artist Louise Vigée Le Brun. Louvre, Paris/Photo by Jean-Gilles Berizzi. Both Robert and Fragonard were pioneers of a new bravura...
Hubert Robert, 1733 - 1808. Architectural Capriccio with the Port of Ripetta and the Pantheon, 1760, pen and ink with wash and watercolor over chalk on paper that appears to be partially prepared. Collection of Jean Bonna, Geneva. A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple, c. 1760, oil on canvas.
Jun 15, 2016 · On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from June 26 through October 2, 2016, Hubert Robert, 1733–1808 is the first monographic exhibition in the United States on the artist as well as the first exhibition to survey his achievements as both a painter and a draftsman.
May 18, 2024 · Hubert Robert (born May 22, 1733, Paris, France—died April 15, 1808, Paris) was a French landscape painter sometimes called Robert des Ruines because of his many romantic representations of Roman ruins set in idealized surroundings. Robert, Hubert: Imaginary View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre in Ruins.
