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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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Original works by Hubert Robert available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Hubert Robert
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) NEW! 
Skip forward to about page 3 for numerous works on paper by Hubert Robert
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
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)
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 NEW!
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Fountain
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia NEW!
The Tomb of Virgil at Posilipo, 1784 (click "next" twice to see the painting)
Hubert Robert in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
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) NEW!
Monuments et ruines à la colonne
Le Temple de la Piété dans le parc de Méréville
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
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 NEW!
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Imaginary View of Rome
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Ruins of a Roman Bath with Washerwomen
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
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
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
The Finding of the Laocoön, 1773
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK NEW!
Figures at a Well
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - Provenance Research
Banquet in Temple Ruins, 1795
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Hubert Robert in 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)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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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 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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