Hubert Robert
(1733 - 1808)
(1733 - 1808)
Hubert Robert 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Robert
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1787
Oil on canvas
240 x 240 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062545
Stretching the theme a bit today because this not in fact a bridge but an aqueduct or watercourse.
It brings back memories from 40 years ago when I went hiking with a friend in the south of France. It looked very much the same then as in this painting only not so many people about…
It brings back memories from 40 years ago when I went hiking with a friend in the south of France. It looked very much the same then as in this painting only not so many people about…
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