Hubert Robert

1733–1808 · Neoclassicism

Hubert Robert was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.

40 paintings

• The Old Temple (1787/88)
• The Obelisk (1787)
• The Landing Place (1788)
• The Fountains (1787–88)
• Pair of Paintings: The Colonnade of St. Peter's, Rome, during the Conclave and The Grotto of Posillipo (c.1769)
• The Colonnade of St. Peter's, Rome, during the Conclave (c.1769)
• The Grotto of Posillipo (c. 1769)
• Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple (1760)
• Demolition of the Château of Meudon (1806)
• A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple (1760)
• Fire of Rome (1787)
• Landscape with an Arch and the Dome of Saint Peter's in Rome (1773)
• Examining an Old Church (1770)
• Flight of Galatea (1780)
• Stable in Ruins of the Villa Giulia (1760)
• Neglected Statue (1790)
• Landscape with a Stairs and Obelisk (1770)
• Laundresses in the Ruins (1760)
• Les Cascatelles de Tivoli (1768)
• landscape with figures (1758)
• Scène autour d'un puits (1750)
• Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre, vers 1796 (1796)
• Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins (1796)
• Staircase in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola (1764)
• Demolition of the Houses on the Pont Notre-Dame in 1786 (1786)
• The Arc de Triomphe and the Theatre of Orange (1787)
• The Maison Carée, the Arena, and the Tour Magne in Nîmes (1787)
• The Pont du Gard (1786)
• The End of the Fire of the Opéra, Second Room of Palais-Royal, 8 June 1781 (1758)
• Inside the Temple of Diana in Nîmes (1786)
• Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre, vers 1798 (1798)
• Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre, vers 1789 (1796)
• The Salle des Saisons in the Louvre (1802)
• Vue imaginaire de la grande galerie du Louvre en ruine (1796)
• Paysage de ruines avec fontaine dont le sujet évoque la devise "Tant va la cruche à l'eau" (1788)
• The Ponte Salario (c. 1775)
• The Destruction of a Church (1787)
• Ruins with an Obelisk in the Distance (1775)
• Stenbrud med en fårehjord (1748-1808)
• Civil Guard (1780)