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Hubert Robert, "L'escalier de Pierre" 1774>1784. This painting is a close cousin of the one shown previously. All the ingredients are in place: the obelisk, the staircase under the arch, the crack in the ceiling and the cavity under the stairs, explored by a man carrying a torch.
Jean Lemaire, Landscape with ruins and a shepherd
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Among Robert’s exhibits at the 1775 Salon was a pair of paintings listed under number 71 as belonging to Monsieur de Frouville. The full description, in translation, was "Two Paintings, one The Return of the Cattle under the Ruins in the Setting Sun, the other The Portico of a Country Mansion, near Florence
Caprice architectural avec des monuments de Nîmes
These narrow paintings, designed by Robert as overdoors, were thus intended to be seen both from a relative distance and from below. In the interest of increasing the effect of illusion, the artist placed the figures upon grassy hillocks with the ruins sunk (and in one case partially buried) behind
Hubert Robert - Decorative Landscape with an Obelisk, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
Stair and Fountain in the Park of a Roman Villa, Hubert Robert (1733—1808)
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French Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has died following a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix, on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
