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Oil on canvas
H. 0,32 m; W. 0,24 m
Date: ca. 1890-1900
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French painter, draughtsman, etcher and landscape designer, Hubert Robert was one of the most prolific and engaging landscape painters of 18th-century France. He specialised in architectural scenes in which topographical elements derived from the buildings and monuments of ancient and modern Italy and of France are combined, often in fantastic settings or fictitious juxtapositions. The fluid touch and rich impasto employed in his paintings, also shared by his friend Jean-Honoré Fragonard, are matched by the freedom of his numerous red chalk drawings and the few etchings that he is known to have produced.
The painting of the Park of Saint Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris, is to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Hubert Robert by Joseph Baillio, Wildenstein Institute, who dates it from between 1790 to 1800. |
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