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The Glorious Past According to Hubert Robert

Published on , by Caroline Legrand
Auction on 14 February 2021 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle Saint-Jean, 12, rue Jean-Nicot - 45140 Saint-Jean-de-La-Ruelle

Beauty and serenity reign over this idealized landscape where some strollers linger amidst ancient stones. “Robert of the ruins” mastered time.

Hubert Robert (1733-1808), Promeneurs dans un paysage de ruines (Strollers in a Landscape... The Glorious Past According to Hubert Robert

Hubert Robert (1733-1808), Promeneurs dans un paysage de ruines (Strollers in a Landscape of Ruins), oil on canvas, signed on stone, 155 x 145 cm (61.03 x 57.09 in).
Estimate: €20,000/30,000

A man in a toga is taken by surprise while reading a Roman stele. Hubert Robert (1703-1808) admired the grandeur that once was Rome, but his paintings are also an endlessly renewed ode to life, with figures walking about in their distant ancestors’ footsteps.…
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