Hubert Robert, 1790 - Farnese Hercules - fine art print

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General description from Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris (© - by Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris - Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris)

The statue of the "Farnese Hercules" and some ancient ruins surround a paved path that evokes the Via Appia. At the foot of the remains, a man raises a tombstone and discovers the entrance to a cave that watching two women dressed in antique. The composition leaves room to cloudy sky on which a large tree silhouette cut-out.

In 1790, Pierre-Antoine playwright Caron de Beaumarchais control decor consists of eight panels Hubert Robert to the large living room of his mansion in Paris. In 1802, the Urban Works condemn the mansion. The house was bought by the City of Paris in 1818 and its destruction was completed between 1826 and 1829. The panels of the decor are first reused in the Old Town Hall for the Seine prefect of the apartments are then stored in attics. In 1852, a new exhibition is realized in Marble gallery. The panels are saved from the fire that ravaged the City Hall in 1871 and go on restoration several years. They then return to the new City Hall but are no longer hooked together. Thus in 1902, the signs "Medici Venus" and "Farnese Hercules" entering the Petit Palais museum while the other six are still held at the City Hall.

Hercules (Roman mythology); Heracles (Greek mythology)

Landscape, Ancient Ruins, ancient statue, Caveau, Tombstone, Human Figure, Man, Woman

In 1790 the male painter Hubert Robert created the rococo painting. The more than 230 year-old original was made with the following size of Height: 281 cm, Width: 132 cm. Oil, Canvas (material) was applied by the French painter as the technique for the painting. Moveover, this piece of art belongs to the collection of Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris. With courtesy of Petit Palais Paris (license - public domain).Creditline of the artwork: . In addition to this, the alignment is in portrait format and has a ratio of 1 : 2, which means that the length is 50% shorter than the width. Hubert Robert was a male curator, painter, whose art style can mainly be assigned to Rococo. The French painter was born in 1733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and died at the age of 75 in the year 1808.

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