Artists

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  Washerwomen below a Bridge $AU 234.61 ~ 1,032.84
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  Design for the Grande Galerie in the Louvre $AU 1,445.84
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  Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins $AU 276.48 ~ 1,501.61
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  Washerwomen $AU 263.88 ~ 988.58
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  The Pont du Gard $AU 305.34 ~ 4,830.95

Hubert Robert (1733 Paris-1808 Paris) attended the College de Navarre and studied drawing in the atelier of the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz. In 1754 he left for Rome, where he remained for over ten years. It was there that he received (between 1759 and 1762) the official sponsorship of the Academie de France. In 1760 he traveled to Naples to view excavations of the antique world. Robert's work in Italy was decisively influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Giovanni Paolo Pannini. In 1765 Robert returned to Paris, where he joined the Academie as an architectural painter in 1766. After a brief imprisonment during the Revolution, he became a member of the commission responsible for remodeling the Louvre into a new national Museum Robert is considered an important precusor of French 19th-century landscape painting. His works include Demolition of Houses on the Pont Prisoners of St-Lazare, 1793, Musee Carnavalat, Paris; and Avenue in a Park, 1799, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.