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Hubert Robert (1733–1808) was a French painter whose work gives a prominent role to architecture and ruins. After training with the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz, he studied perspective in Rome with Giovanni Paolo Panini. There he befriended Fragonard, drawing in red chalk with him in the city and its surroundings. Admitted to the Royal Academy as an architectural painter in 1766, he exhibited regularly at the Salon. He also contributed to garden design, particularly at Méréville. Imprisoned during the Revolution, he subsequently resumed his duties at the Muséum. His 1796 view of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie in ruins transforms the museum into an imaginary structure exposed to the passage of time.
This profile brings together identity references for Hubert Robert and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Red chalk on paper.
Ansicht der Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati
Rötel auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2025-10-28
Published result : 7622 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 6000–8000
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Watercolour
Umkreis - Circle
Aquarell
Catalogue period : 2023-05-11
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 650
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Red chalk on paper
Vue du forum d'Auguste à Rome
sanguine sur papier
Catalogue period : 2024-06-06
Published result : 12000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 15000–20000
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Red chalk on paper
La promenade en barque
sanguine sur papier
Catalogue period : 2015-03-11
Published result : 6000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Watercolour
Entourage de Hubert Robert — Capriccio architectural avec fontaine,
aquarelle
entourage de
Catalogue period : 2026-05-27 — 2026-06-10
Circle of
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 3000–5000
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Red chalk on paper
Entourage de Hubert Robert — Etude d'arbre
sanguine sur papier
entourage de
Catalogue period : 2025-06-05 — 2025-06-18
Circle of
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à HUBERT ROBERT — "Les Lavandières".
Öl auf Leinwand
Zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2017-05-12
Attributed
Published result : 4000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4800
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Watercolour over pencil
Paysage architecturé
Aquarell über Bleistift
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2012-06-23
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Published result : 1555 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–2000
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