Hubert Robert, 1806 - Demolition of the Château of Meudon - fine art print

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Under a bright, sun-drenched sky, the demolition of the château of Meudon is well under way. In the lower left, a man in a top hat directs four laborers--one clearly shirking his responsibilities. Other workmen transport stones with wheelbarrows or by hand. At center, two women and a young girl admire the ruins. Other visitors have entered the structure and gaze out from a balcony. Another young woman, holding a baby, tends to a group of children playfully lugging a cart across the littered courtyard. At the right edge, an artist with a large sheet of paper on his lap, gestures at the scene below.

This diverse human activity--encompassing work, rest, and play--is dwarfed by the château itself, which although partly demolished, creates a strong diagonal axis through the composition. Hubert Robert also emphasizes the main structure by casting it in strong light. By contrast, many of the figures around the periphery of the composition are shrouded in shadow.

Located near Versailles, with a view of Paris and the Seine River, the château of Meudon was once among France's finest monuments. But during the 1700s, it fell into disrepair. During the French Revolution, which began in 1789, the château was ransacked and it suffered further damage in a fire of 1795. It was demolished entirely in 1803. Rather than documenting the site's actual appearance in that year, Hubert Robert combined fact and fiction, depicting features that had already vanished alongside still-existing elements of the structure.

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In 1806 the French painter Hubert Robert created this artpiece. Moveover, this piece of art belongs to the digital collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, which is part of the J. Paul Getty trust and is one of the world's largest arts organizations worldwide. It seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance.. The modern art artwork, which belongs to the public domain is supplied with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Also, the artwork has the following creditline: . Besides, the alignment is in landscape format with a ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The curator, painter Hubert Robert was a European artist, whose style can primarily be classified as Rococo. The European artist lived for a total of 75 years - born in the year 1733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased in 1808 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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