Monday, March 13, 2023

Hubert Robert
(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

The Pont du Gard
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…
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