ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICE WITH TEMPLE AND OBELISK after Hubert Robert (Paris, 22 May 1733 – Paris, 15 April 1808)

Qualitative pictorial reinterpretation of the homonymous painting by Hubert Robert, which he created in 1798. Hubert Robert (Paris, 22 May 1733 – Paris, 15 April 1808) received his initial artistic education in his homeland. In 1754, he went to Rome, where he was admitted to the Academy of France. The examples of the great master Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Giovanni Paolo Panini were important for his training as a view painter, which he interpreted in his own way also thanks to the suggestions given by the young Jean-Honoré Fragonard, whom he met in Rome in 1756 and with whom he remained friends. He visited the surroundings of Rome and, after 1761, Naples and the archaeological sites of Campania, drawing an impressive number of picturesque views from them, some of which were then reproduced in the famous "Voyage pittoresque." Robert was in Florence in 1763, then again in Naples and Paestum: from the notes of these travels, he then derived the engravings of the series Les soirées de Rome. After a short stay in Venice in 1764, he finally returned to France the following year and continued to paint and draw there. Art Frame. Oil on canvas. Art of Central Italy - 20th century. Measurements: Height cm 72 Width cm 92