Hubert Robert, 1788 - The Fountains - fine art print

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The Fountains was made by the French artist Hubert Robert. The version of the work of art was made with the exact size: 255,3 × 221,2 cm (100 1/2 × 88 1/8 in) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. It forms part of the art collection of Art Institute Chicago, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. With courtesy of - Art Institute Chicago (license: public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Gift of William G. Hibbard. Furthermore, alignment is in portrait format and has an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Hubert Robert was a male curator, painter from France, whose art style can be classified as Rococo. The European painter was born in 1733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased at the age of 75 in 1808 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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The painting of Classical ruins had reached the zenith of its popularity when Hubert Robert, the leading French practitioner of this specialty, was commissioned in 1787 to paint a suite of four canvases for a wealthy financier’s château at Méréville, near Paris. The Fountains and its companion pieces were set into the paneled walls of a salon in the château, creating an alternate space that played off of the elegant, Neoclassical decor of the room. Robert has studied in Rome from 1754 to 1765 and there had gleaned his artistic vocabulary. Like the other three large paintings from the group painted for Méréville, all in the Art Institute, The Fountains exploits Robert’s typical vocabulary of fictive niches, arches, coffered vaults, colonnades, majestic stairwells, and Roman statuary to create a fantasy of expansive space. The four paintings are inhabited by tiny figures in the foreground; these serve only to set the scale and animate the scene, for the ruins themselves are the true subject of the pictures. In his use of ruins, Robert embodied the notion of the relationship of mankind and the built environment to nature that was expressed by the French philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot: “Everything vanishes, everything dies, only time endures.”

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