Hubert Robert

1733–1808

Selected artwork

The Fountains

1787–88

Art Institute of Chicago

Pre-romanticismFrance

Other names (5)

Hubert des Ruines Robert, Hubert Robart, Hubert Robarts, Hubert Roberts, Robert des Ruines

Biography

Hubert Robert (French pronunciation: [ybɛʁ ʁɔbɛʁ]; 22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) 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.

Hubert Robert was born in Paris in 1733. His father, Nicolas Robert, was in the service of François-Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville, a leading diplomat from Lorraine. Young Robert finished his studies with the Jesuits at the Collège de Navarre in 1751 and entered the atelier of the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz who taught him design and perspective but encouraged him to turn to painting. In 1754 he left for Rome in the train of Étienne-François de Choiseul, son of his father's employer, who had been named French ambassador and would become a Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Louis XV in 1758.

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Later influence

Jean-François Janineteditorial inference
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Museums & collections

Documented holdings of works attributed to Hubert Robert. Check the museum’s record for current display information.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art34 recorded works
Musée du Louvre31 recorded works
musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon28 recorded works
National Gallery of Art22 recorded works
musée des arts décoratifs, de la faïence et de la mode — Marseille19 recorded works
The Cleveland Museum of Art17 recorded works
Art Institute of Chicago16 recorded works
Musée Carnavalet14 recorded works
Minneapolis Institute of Art10 recorded works
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts8 recorded works
musée des beaux-arts — Rouen7 recorded works
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris5 recorded works
musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon — Versailles4 recorded works
musée Cognacq-Jay, musée du XVIIIe siècle de la ville de Paris — Paris3 recorded works
Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)3 recorded works
musée de Picardie — Amiens2 recorded works
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen2 recorded works
musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes2 recorded works
musée des beaux-arts — Lille2 recorded works
musée Granet — Aix-en-Provence2 recorded works
musée national du château de Fontainebleau — Fontainebleau2 recorded works
Nationalmuseum2 recorded works
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna1 recorded work
château de Sceaux, musée départemental — Sceaux1 recorded work
Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
J. Paul Getty Museum1 recorded work
MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux1 recorded work
musée Condé — Chantilly1 recorded work
musée de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts — Paris1 recorded work
musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal1 recorded work
musée des beaux-arts — Dunkerque1 recorded work
musée des beaux-arts et galerie David-d'Angers — Angers1 recorded work
musée des beaux-arts Jules Chéret — Nice1 recorded work
musée des beaux-arts — Orléans1 recorded work
musée des beaux-arts — Tours1 recorded work
musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes1 recorded work
musée Hyacinthe Rigaud — Perpignan1 recorded work
musée national Magnin — Dijon1 recorded work
Museo Nacional del Prado1 recorded work
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza1 recorded work
National Museum in Warsaw1 recorded work
Palais-musée des Archevêques de Narbonne — Narbonne1 recorded work

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