Artist: Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808)
Nationality: French
Movement: French School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Paris, Hubert Robert was trained in Classicism, but was influenced by the Rococo movement that was popular at the time. With the influence of Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard, he turned to realism, painting his subjects in the perceptive and dynamic manner that he was famous for. Robert was respected and emulated by his colleagues, including Voltaire who commissioned him as a set designer and to decorate his theatre at Ferney. Although he was also a talented portraitist and historical painter, it was his landscapes that exemplified his full talent.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Jean-Honore Fragonard - Hubert Robert c. 1760 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Hubert Robert, Le Buste, 1764
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Aqueduct in Ruins, overdoor, ca. 1776 Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 32 1/8 x
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Hubert Robert, Artist Sketching, circa 1796
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Hubert Robert, English Park Scene, 19th century
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(Hubert) Marius Robert, The Landing (L"Embarcadere), 20th century
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(Hubert) Marius Robert, Musicians in an Archway, 20th century
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Simon Charles Miger, Portrait of Hubert Robert, 1799
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The Dance Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 68 1/4 x 33 5/8 in. (173.4
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The Swing Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 68 1/4 x 34 5/8 in. (173.4
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The Bathing Pool Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 68 3/4 x 48 3/4 in.
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Wandering Minstrels Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 68 3/4 x 48 1/4 in. (174.6
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The Ruins, 1777 Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; Diameter 32 3/4 in. (83.2 cm)Gift
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Hubert Robert, Landscape with Roman Villa, circa 1760
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The Return of the Cattle Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 80 3/4 x 48
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The Old Bridge Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; Diameter 32 3/4 in. (83.2 cm)Gift
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The Portico of a Country Mansion, 1773 Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 80 3/4
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The Mouth of a Cave, 1784 Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 68 3/4 x
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Bridge over a Cascade, overdoor, ca. 1776 Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 32 x
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Arches in Ruins, overdoor Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 23 1/8 x 61 1/4
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The Fountain Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 68 1/4 x 31 3/8 in. (173.4
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A Colonnade in Ruins, overdoor Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808)Oil on canvas; 23 x 61 1/8
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Landscape with Ruins
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Farmyard with Two Figures
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Hubert Robert - The Old Bridge c. 1775 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Hubert Robert - The Fountain c. 1760-65 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
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Hubert von Herkomer, The Woodcutters, 1880
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Hubert Hilscher, Circus, 1967
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Hubert Hilscher, Warsaw, Autumn, 1970
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Hubert Robert - The Finding of the Laocoon 1773 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
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Hubert von Herkomer, The Poacher"s Fate, 1879
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Hermit Praying
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Hubert von Herkomer, Portraits of Herkomer and of his children, 1879
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Hubert Clerget, Les Grivats, 19th century
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Hubert Clerget, Chateldon, 19th century
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Herman G. Herkomer, Sir Hubert Herkomer, R.A., 1887
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Pieter Brueghel the younger - Village festival in honour of St. Hubert and St. Anthony 1632 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Hubert von Herkomer, Our Messenger, 19th - 20th century
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Hubert von Herkomer, A Spongetype (Study of Head), 1895
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Hubert Robert - Figures Amidst Ruins c. 1775 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Addison Gallery of American Art: Between Image and Object: The Prints of Robert Mangold
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris: Robert Delaunay: 1906 - 1914
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: Robert MacPherson: Murranji
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Vancouver Art Gallery: Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation
Encompassing projects Smithson conceived in Vancouver, as well as work undertaken before and after his visits to the city, the exhibition will include drawings, photographs, sculpture, film and archival material. IMAGE
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Musee d'Art Americain: Robert Capa:Photographies
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Carrie Art Collection: Robert Paret: Artist of the Month
Robert Paret was born in 1947 in Port-au-Prince where he studied the classics at university. In 1970 he graduated from with a degree in acrhitecture. During the paces of his profession, he has elaborated on and completed sereval projects in Haiti...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Robert Frank: A Retrospective from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Robert Frank sucked a sad poem right out of America, as the Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac remarked in the introduction to The Ame...
Butler Museum of American Art: Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter of the Old South
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Ohio Art League: Pinhole Art
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University of Richmond Museums: Robert Rauschenberg: From the Speculations Series
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Detroit Institute of Art: THE FINE ART OF WOOD: THE BOHLEN COLLECTION
Explore this growing medium, where the vision of the artist and the possibilities of a single material combine to create dozens of amazing forms. Accom...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Robert Adrian X
It’s all about this fuzzy territory between different media, it’s about the vanishing of demarcating definitions.” Quotes from classical modernity, advertising, and media technology or arms-industry artifacts are placed in new, often flowing-spati...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Robert Macpherson: A Comprehensive Survey of Work
The language of roadside signage, fruit and vegetable shops, street hobos and car enthusiasts is expressed in Macpherson's paintings, installations and sculptural works, which are regarded highly by international curato...
Dia Center for the Arts: Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square3
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Art Gallery of New South Wales: Robert Klippel - A Tribute Exhibition
"Robert Klippel was Australia's greatest sculptor and arguably one of the most significant sculptors of his generation internationally. Klippel's particular vision, inspired by the intricacies and the profusion of our natural and man-made environm...
Cape Museum of Fine Arts: Robert Roark: Master of Light and Realism
A Mississippi native, Roark received his formal training at the Art Students League in New York City, the National Academy of Design, and the Cape Cod School of Art, where he studied with such noted a...
Museum of Fine Art Houston: Museum Trustees and Patrons: Portraits by Robert Joy
Among the subjects are Gladys Madigan Andrews, Isaac and Tony Arnold, George and Herman Brown, George Heyer, Ima Hogg, and Louisa Stude Sarofim....
Detroit Museum of Art: Robert Frank: The Americans
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Metamorphosis to Freedom
Robert 0. Fisch is a native of Budapest, Hungary, and a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. After the war, Dr. Fisch returned to Hungary and completed medical school, and then went to America in...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Milwaukee Art Museum: Currents 31: Robert Melee
The home entertainment units will contain vintage televisions featuring Melee's home movies - of the artist, his flamboyant mother and friends - and framed photographs and treasured bottles of liquor. Melee's work, while seemingly reproducing ...
Attic Gallery: Lawyers Who Are Artists
Art Spiegel- Known for his Cincinnati landscapes, Art also produces classically themed artwork with great skill. He is phenomenally talented, only having taken up painting three years ago and producing such good work. Bruce Petrie, Jr.- Wel...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor
Motherwell's works are based on poems by Rafael Alberti, and Johns' are collaborations with novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett. Both artists have played dominant roles in the development and maturation of twentieth-century contemporary a...
Bishop's University Art Gallery: No Safety Zone: An Installation by Robert Holland Murray
The delicate and precarious equilibrium of this wooden constellation seems at odds with its threatening physicality, one of many contradictions that pervade, rendering the act of apprehension complex and compelling. The unsettling impression resul...
Figureworks: Robert Shetterly: Annunciation Series -- Eric Weil: Mixed-media Sculpture
Robert Shetterly says of his work, "I make pictures to keep myself from being overwhelmed by the world. I consider my work to be a contemplation of what it means tobe alive - a celebration of the imagination, the ambiguities of human behavior, ...
: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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University of Kentucky Art Museum: Robert James Foose: A Retrospective
For me, all painting is abstract. The idea itself is abstract. I make paintings that can be easily named ... that is, the viewer knows what the content is. In naming them, I am interested in showing the structures and forms (abstractions) withi...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Reinventing the West: The Photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams
The Addison will publish a fullly illustrated catalogue with essays by curator Allison Kemmerer and John Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development at Harvard University. IMAGE:
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Vancouver Art Gallery: NEXT: Robert Arndt
In order to challenge traditional perceptions of art, Robert Arndt's practice is concerned with documentation itself as artwork. He highlights the notion that documentation may be all that is required for an idea to exist and resonate. Arndt's new...

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