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Hubert Robert

[French Rococo Era Painter, 1733-1808]

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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.
- from the Bulfinch Guide to Art History

 


 
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Hubert Robert

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
35 works by Robert

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Robert

Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Architectural Composition with the Pantheon, 1761 (Zoom)

Hubert Robert in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
19 paintings

Hubert Robert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Many works, including: The Dance
The Mouth of a Cave
, 1784
The Ruins, 1777

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
2 works online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Hubert Robert at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
9 works by Hubert Robert

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Bridge, 1776

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
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5 works online

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
An extensive landscape near Paris, 1781

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
View of the Vaulting in St.Peter's Taken from an Upper Cornice, ca.1793

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Figures Amidst Ruins

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

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
The Colonnade of St. Peter's, Rome, during the Conclave
The Grotto of Posillipo


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   NEW!

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Fountain

Hubert Robert in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
L'Abreuvoir

Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
L'Accident

Musée de Valence, France (in French)  

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France (in French)  

Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Rovine del tempio di Giove, 1761

Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Villa Madama in Roma, 1761

National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Imaginary View of Rome

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy
Works in the database (can be a little slow)

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Ruins of a Roman Bath with Washerwomen

Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Fountain on a Castle-terrace

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

Strossmayer's Old Master Gallery, Croatia
Roman Ruins with Figures

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

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

Smithsonian Institution 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)

 
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Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales   NEW!
L'Escalier de Pierre

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Hubert Robert in the Art Renewal Center

Hubert Robert at Insecula

Hubert Robert in the Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Hubert Robert at ImageNETion

 
Other Web Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
Design for the Louvre's Great Gallery

 
Articles:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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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Fire at the Opera of the Palais-Royal
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The Maison Carree with the Amphitheatre
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Landscape of Italy
Landscape of Italy


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Riders and Pedestrians in an Arched Passage
Riders and Pedestrians in an Arched Passage


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The Cenotaph of Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Cenotaph of Jean Jacques Rousseau


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The Pont Du Gard, Nimes, ca.1786
The Pont Du Gard, Nimes, ca.1786


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Hubert Robert: The Obelisk
The Obelisk


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Hubert Robert: Thermae
Thermae

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