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Hubert Robert18th Century French sanguine drawing of figures in the Roman ruins by Robert
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Hubert Robert (French, 1733 – 1808)
Figures in the Roman ruins
Sanguine on paper
29.6 x 35.6 cm.
Bearing watermark from ‘Jan Honig & Zoonen, Amsterdam’
Provenance: Hal O’Nians, Fine art dealers, St. James, 1964 #22, Old Master drawings
This maybe a study of the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome near the Porta San Paolo
- Creator:Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 11.66 in (29.6 cm)Width: 14.02 in (35.6 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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- Condition:The drawing has been laid on a card, a few creases to the edge, behind glass. In washlined grey/blue mount, in a giltwood frame with a few minor losses and abrasions to the beading.
- Gallery Location:Petworth, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU540310129732
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert came from a privileged family of Lorraine origin, linked to the Choiseul-Stainville family, where his father was an intendant. The protection of this powerful aristocratic family enabled him to study classical art at the Collège de Navarre (between 1745 and 1751). After a first apprenticeship in the workshop of the sculptor Slodtz (1705 - 1764), he was invited by Etienne-François de Choiseul-Beaupré-Stainville (the future Duke of Choiseul, then Count of Stainville) to join him in Rome when the latter had just been appointed ambassador. Hubert Robert arrived in Rome on 4 November 1754, aged twenty-one, and remained there until 24 July 1765. Thanks to his patron, he obtained a place as a pensioneer at the Académie de France without having won the prestigious Prix de Rome. On his arrival in Rome, he frequented the studio of the painter Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691 - 1765), the inventor of the ruins painting, and also benefited from the proximity of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s studio (1720 - 1778). During his eleven-year stay in Rome, Hubert Robert studied the great Italian masters and drew many of the great archaeological sites, multiplying the sketches which he would use throughout his career, becoming one of the masters of the "ruin landscape". Back in Paris in 1765, he was very successful. He was accepted and admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture on the same day, July 26th 1766, which was very unusual. He was appointed draughtsman of the king's gardens in 1784, then guard of the Royal Museum from 1784 to 1792. Arrested in 1793 and detained in the prisons of Sainte Pélagie and Saint-Lazare, he was released in 1794 after the fall of Robespierre and undertook a second trip to Italy. In 1800, Hubert Robert was appointed curator of the new Central Museum and died at his home in Paris in 1808.
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