Hubert ROBERT

Hubert Robert (1733-1808)
Hubert Robert is a painter of landscapes. He is considered as one of the leading French artists of the eighteenth century. An etcher and illustrator he specialized in particular in architecture and gardens.

Robert studied drawing with the sculptor Rene-Michel Slodtz. He traveled to Italy with his patron, Count Stainville, which organizes and finances his studies at the French Academy in Rome, although he did not study at the Academy of Paris. Robert spent the eleven years in Italy where the architecture, ruins and landscape inspired. Then he returned to Paris with a repertoire of drawings that will be the source of the subsequent tables. He became a partner, then a full member of the Royal Academy in 1766.
He was named designer of the king's gardens and museum curator, and even made sketches for the redesigned galleries of the Louvre. Popular in France, his works are collected by the Empress Catherine II and other patrons in Russia.
Museums in Valencia, Carnavalet and the Louvre in Paris as well as the Hermitage in St. Petersburg retain a large collection of drawings and paintings.