Hubert Robert

(1733–1808) fransk konstnär

Hubert Robert (France, 1733–1808) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Hubert Robert belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.

Hubert Robert was born in Paris and died in Paris. Hubert Robert trained at Collège de Navarre and University of Paris. Hubert Robert studied under René-Michel Slodtz. Hubert Robert worked in Paris, Paris, Paris, and Rome. Wikidata associates Hubert Robert with Pre-romanticism. Hubert Robert became a member of Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The students included Charles Fournier des Ormes, Thomas-Charles Naudet, and René de Girardin.

The best-known works include ‘Projet pour éclairer la galerie du Musée par la voûte, et pour la diviser sans ôter la vue de la prolongation du local’, ‘Draughtsman Drawing the Wooden Bridge in the Park of Méréville’, and ‘View of the Park of Méréville’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Hubert Robert with free images. The dated works span the years 1750–1806. Works by Hubert Robert are held by several collections, among them Eremitaget, Département des peintures du Louvre, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Rococo’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include François-Nicolas Martinet, Pierre Julien, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean Bardin, and Luo Ping.

• Rococo
• The Mouth of a Cave
• The Bathing Pool