ROBERT, Hubert
(b. 1733, Paris, d. 1808, Paris)

A Scene in the Grounds of the Villa Farnese, Rome

c. 1765
Oil on panel, 25 x 35 cm
Private collection

During his stay in Italy from 1754 to 1765 Robert made a large number of red chalk drawings of the most important sites in Rome. A signed preparatory drawing for this painting, depicting a scene in the grounds of the Villa Farnese, Rome, with a mother and child seated upon an antique stair, a classical rotunda beyond, is known.




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