Room 118
Hubert Robert
1733–1808, France (Paris), Italy (Rome), Neoclassicism
Hubert Robert spent eleven years in Rome, tirelessly drawing temples, statues, stairways and gardens. In Paris he became famous as “Robert of the ruins”: he invented landscapes of ancient ruins inhabited by washerwomen, herdsmen and strollers. Later he designed gardens for Versailles and was one of the first curators of the Louvre.
All works
- The Ponte Salario
- The Garden Gate
- A Roman Capriccio
- Architectural Fantasy with a Triumphal Bridge
- Fantasy on an Ancient Campidoglio
- Housetops behind a Wall
- Statue of Jupiter, Seated
- Monumental Arch
- Woman and Smaller Male Figure on Grand Stairway
- Interior of a Roman Palace
- Statue of Abundance
- Little Girl with a Large Basket
- Man with a Walking Stick, Seen in Profile
- S. Rocco
- Statue of a Female in a Toga
- Monumental Stairway
- The Obelisk in Saint Peter's Square
- View from a Ridge to a Village and Distant Mountain
- Figures on a Monumental Interior Stairway
- Statue of Zeus Holding a Thunderbolt
- Bust of a Roman Woman and Statue of a Roman Man
- Group of Male Figures Conversing
- Statue of a Vestal Virgin
- Two Women Seen from Behind
- A Decorative Sculpture with a Woman Seen from Behind
- Statue of Alexander and Bucephalus
- Capitoline Hill
- Italian City Scene
- Statue of Cleopatra
- Head of a Man
- Villa Medici
- Young Woman's Head in Profile
- Couple by a Fountain
- Herdsmen Crossing a Waterfall
- Charitable Ladies
- Young Woman with Donkeys Riding under a Natural Bridge
- Ruined Farm
- The Ponte Salario with Laundresses
- Ruine de la partie Interieure d'une Basilique de Rome
- Ruine d'une Gallerie Antique de Rome
- Courtyard of the Villa Pliniana