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Hubert Robert · 18e siècle
Hubert Robert: 1733–1808
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
Evidence
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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
- 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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- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Polish museum and gallery creator authorities
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)