Wall Decorations
French, 1733-1808
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.to
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Creator: Hubert Robert
Italian Neo-Classic Landscape of the Temple of Vespia
By Hubert Robert
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Neo-Classic Hubert Robert-style (20th Century) landscape oil painting with figures and an equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius near the Temple of Vespia in a rectangular carv...
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Italian Neo-Classic Landscape of Ancient Ruins
By Hubert Robert
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Italian Neo-classic Hubert Robert-style (20th Century) landscape oil painting with figures and ruins next to the Temple of Vestra and Arch of Titus in a rectangular carved giltwood f...
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Marius Hubert-Robert "In The Sun The Small Farmhouse" Oil on Canvas 20th France
By Hubert Robert
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful oil on canvas by Marius Hubert-Robert entitled "In the sun the small farmhouse" representing a Provencal landscape with two characters on a path at the foot of a farmhouse (typical house of Provence),
Marius Hubert-Robert (Paris 1885 - Nice 1966) is an orientalist painter and illustrator. He exhibited notably at the Salon des indépendants in 1929, at the Artistes Français, at the Société Nouvelle des Beaux Arts, at the Salon d'Hiver.
Painter in the 10th Army during the 1914-18 war, Marius Hubert Robert gave 2 of his wartime works to the Musée du Luxembourg.
Among his other major exhibitions, we can cite:
Paris, Galerie Charpentier "From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego"(1926); "Under the Sign of the Sun, North Africa" (1928); "The Mediterranean Basin" (1931); Galerie Petit, Hôtel de la Duchesse de Rohan, Galerie Mona Lisa in Paris;
LONDON: The Mansion House, Alpin Club;
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CANADA: Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria;
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