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Oil Paintings by Hubert Robert, France 1733 to 1808
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Hubert Robert paintings dipict views of classical and contemporary architecture and were immensely popular during his lifetime. Robert was best known for his paintings of ruins,blending fantasy and factual accuracy. His immense, crumbling monuments of an often-imaginary past earned him the nickname, "Robert des Ruines" (Robert of the Ruins).
Hubert Robert was admitted to the Académie Royale, where he exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon. In addition to showing ruins, architecture, and landscapes of Italian derivation, Robert also depicted his native France. His views of Paris are among his most topographically accurate. In 1778, he was awarded prestigious lodgings in the Louvre, where he lived until 1802. He was briefly imprisoned during the French Revolution but continued to paint and draw until his death in 1808.
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