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During the French Revolution, Robert was imprisoned and sentenced to death. He only escaped because someone was mistakenly guillotined in his place.
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Hubert Robert Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Hubert Robert available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
35 works by Robert
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Robert
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Architectural Composition with the Pantheon, 1761 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
19 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Skip forward to about page 3 for numerous works on paper by Hubert Robert
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Bridge, 1776
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
5 works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
An extensive landscape near Paris
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
View of the Vaulting in St.Peter's Taken from an Upper Cornice
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Architectural Caprice with Bridge and Arch
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Architectural capriccio with obelisk
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
The Dismantling of the Church of the Holy Innocents, Paris in 1785
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Capriccio of Classical Ruins with Pyramid, ca.1760
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
Laundress and Child
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Paysage au pont
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Bergers sous une grotte
Château en ruines
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
The Tomb of Virgil at Posilipo, 1784 (click "next" twice to see the painting)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Figures Amidst Ruins
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
L'Abreuvoir
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
L'Accident
Musée de Valence, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Monuments et ruines à la colonne
Le Temple de la Piété dans le parc de Méréville
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Rovine del tempio di Giove, 1761
Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Villa Madama in Roma, 1761
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Imaginary View of Rome with the Horse-Tamer of the Monte Cavallo and a Church, 1786
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Fontaine et colonnade dans un parc
Allée dans un parc
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
4 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Strossmayer's Old Master Gallery, Croatia
Roman Ruins with Figures
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
The Finding of the Laocoön, 1773
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Figures at a Well
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - Provenance Research
Banquet in Temple Ruins, 1795
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
A Capriccio of Roman Architecture
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Hubert Robert at The Art Renewal Center
Hubert Robert at The Athenaeum 
Hubert Robert in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
L'Escalier de Pierre
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
Design for the Louvre's Great Gallery
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hubert Robert 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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