Hubert Robert PARIS - WASHERWOMEN AT THE EDGE OF A RIVER, BENEATH A RUINED CIRCULAR TEMPLE

 

Hubert Robert
PARIS 1733 - 1808
WASHERWOMEN AT THE EDGE OF A RIVER, BENEATH A RUINED CIRCULAR TEMPLE
oil on canvas
80.3 by 64.6 cm.; 31 5/8 by 25 1/2 in.


The ruined temple with its Corinthian capitals is almost certainly inspired by the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, outside Rome, which Robert visited in the summer of 1760 with Fragonard and the Abbé de Saint-Non. He made numerous drawings of the site, a good example of which is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence,1 and they formed the basis for numerous paintings after his return to Paris in 1765, perhaps most spectacularly for the enormous canvas of 1779 now in the Château de Maisons-Lafitte.2

1. Exhibited in Washington, National Gallery of Art, Hubert Robert. Paintings and watercolours, 1978, no. 18.
2. Exhibited in Rome, Villa Medici, J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, 1990-91, no. 150.

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