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HUBERT ROBERT (1753-1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 402 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBERT ROBERT (1753-1808)  , French artist, born at Paris in 1753, deserves to be remembered not so much for his skill as a painter as for the liveliness and point with which he treated the subjects he painted . The contrast between the ruins of ancient Rome and the
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life of his time excited his keenest
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interest; and, although he had started for Italy on his own responsibility, the credit he there acquired procured him the
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protection of the minister Marigny and an official allowance . His incessant activity as an artist, his daring character, his many adventures, attracted general sympathy and admiration . In the
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fourth canto of his L'
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Imagination Delille celebrated Robert's miraculous escape when lost in the catacombs; later in life, when imprisoned during the Terror and marked for the
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guillotine, by a fatal accident another died in his place and Robert lived . The quantity of his
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work is immense; the Louvre alone contains nine paintings by his hand and specimens are frequently to be met with in provincial museums and private collections . Robert's work has more or less of that scenic character which justified his selection by Voltaire to paint the decorations of his theatre at Ferney . Robert died of apoplexy on the 15th of
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April 18o8 . His work was much engraved by the abbe Le Non, with whom he had visited Naples in the
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company of
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Fragonard during his early days; in Italy his work has also been frequently reproduced by Chatelain, Lienard, Le Veau, and others . See C . Blanc, Hist.
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des peintres; Villot,
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Notice des tableaux du Louvre;
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Julius Meyer, Gesch. mod. fr . Malerei .

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