Hubert Robert's UniverseAncient ruins, gardens, fires and museum galleries make Hubert Robert a visionary painter capable of transforming architecture into memory, spectacle and project.
1733 - 1808Artist's life
Paris, Rome, Naples, Florence, Versailles and LouvreMain homes
Landscape, architectural whim, ruin, drawing, engraving, decor, garden and museographyPractical
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1733 -1808 · Paris, Rome and imagination of ruins
Ancient ruins, gardens, fires and museum galleries make Hubert Robert a visionary painter capable of transforming architecture into memory, spectacle and project.
Hubert Robert was born in Paris in 1733 and first received training from the sculptor Michelangelo Slodtz. He left for Rome in 1754 with the future Duke of Choiseul and obtained a place at the French Academy. For more than a decade, he designed ancient monuments, gardens, quarries and daily scenes, frequented Fragonard and encountered the decisive influence of Pannini and Piranesi. Returning to Paris in 1765, he was admitted to the Royal Academy the following year as an architectural painter. His success earned him the nickname Robert des Ruines. His whims combined real fragments, displaced monuments, vegetation and small figures to transform Antiquity into the poetic theater of time. However, it is not limited to Roman remains. Designer of the King's Gardens, guard of royal paintings then actor of the future Louvre, he imagines gardens, decorations and exhibition spaces. The Development Project for the Grande Galerie du Louvre reflects his reflection on overhead light and circulation. Its counterpart, View of the Grand Gallery in ruins, exhibited in 1796 the same place that had become a vestige: the future of the museum and its possible disappearance coexist. The interior of the Colosseum transformed ancient architecture into an inhabited scene in 1796 where the human scale makes the mass of the monument perceptible. The interior of the Colosseum transforms ancient architecture into an inhabited scene where the human scale makes the mass of the monument perceptible. The Fire of the Opera at the Palais-Royal sets a contemporary event through the violence of light and presence of witnesses. Arrested in 1793 during the Terror, Robert spent ten months in prison and continued to draw. Released after the fall of Robespierre, he participated in the organization of the Central Museum of Arts and became curator of the future Louvre. Until his death in 1808, he combined observation, invention and historical awareness. Its ruins not only celebrate the past: they question the fragility of any present monument. The "Hubert Robert" selection not only celebrates the past: they question the fragility of any monument present. The "Hubert Robert" selection notably compares the development project of the Grande Galerie du Louvre and the view of the Grande Galerie du Louvre in ruins. His reading favors light.
Robert looks at each architecture in two stages: that of its use and that of its disappearance. It is in this gap that the poetry of its ruins is born.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Paris, Rome and invention of caprice
French Academy, antiques, Fragonard, Pannini and Piranesi form a free look at architecture and time. This milestone illuminates the "Hubert Robert" collection by favoring light.
Academy, courtyard and gardens of the King
Ruins, large sets and landscaping impose an architectural painter sought after by the elites.
Revolution and birth of the Louvre
Prison, views of Paris and Grande Galerie projects accompany the transformation of the palace into a public museum.
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Architectural whim
Observed monuments, invented fragments and displaced scales make up an architecture that is more poetic than documentary. This trait guides a reading of "Hubert Robert" centered on light.
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Visible time
Broken stones, vegetation and ordinary uses show how the present already inhabits its own ruin.
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Figure-scale
Walkers, workers and visitors give the monument its measure while enlivening the depth.
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Event light
Rays, skies and fires transform the constructed space into a dramatic or meditative spectacle.
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Six readings specific to Hubert Robert
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a journey exclusively devoted to Hubert Robert.
Imagined museum01
Louvre Grand Gallery Development Project
Light, circulation and hanging transform the old palace gallery into a modern space for works and the public.
Reference work by Hubert Robert. Reading of "Hubert Robert" through light.Future in ruins02
View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre in ruins
The planned museum becomes a monumental vestige, reminding us that even the institution intended to preserve remains subject to time.
Reference work by Hubert RobertAncient Rome03
Interior of the Colosseum
Arches, vegetation and small figures make the grandeur of the monument felt as much as its slow transformation.
Reference work by Hubert RobertParis in flames04
The Opera Fire at the Palais-Royal
The glow of the disaster, the smoke and the witnesses change a contemporary event into a spectacular vision of destruction.
Reference work by Hubert RobertStyle05
Architectural whim
Observed monuments, invented fragments and displaced scales make up an architecture that is more poetic than documentary. This trait guides a reading of "Hubert Robert" centered on light.
Reading key for Hubert RobertStyle06
Visible time
Broken stones, vegetation and ordinary uses show how the present already inhabits its own ruin.
Reading key for Hubert Robert
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