Hubert Robert, 1760 - The Grotto of Posillipo - fine art print

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Breakthrough in the tuff by Augustus, Cave Posilippo is a tunnel connecting Naples Pouzzole. Hubert Robert was able to discover this unusual place, lit by torchlight, when he accompanied the Abbot of Saint-Non in Naples in spring 1760.Traitée almost like a dream space, the cave takes as Hubert Robert brush an unreal look. The light is the real subject of the painting. The painter color unit are perfect shades from dark brown stone walls in bright yellow output. Such shadow puppets, travelers head to this providential light, announcing the end of the darkness of the cave. It has two other versions of this subject (La Fere museum Jeanne d'Aboville, Rouen Fine Arts Museum), in which Hubert Robert differently modulates light, more insistent or not the clear effects obscur.Les effect light golden invading the space of the canvas, and the curved shape of the cave that gives the impression of a window on the depicted scene is found in a later picture, "Fire in the opera of the Palais Royal, seen from a gallery of the Louvre "(Paris, Opera Museum) or" the Discoverers ancient "(Valencia, Museum of Fine arts).

The tableau on partie de la collection de Jacques Zoubaloff, and was then attributed to François Granet. In 1916, in the fit to don the Ville de Paris.

Genre scene, traveler, Grotto of Posillipo (Naples), Italy

The Grotto of Posillipo is a piece of art created by Hubert Robert in the year 1760. The original measures the size: Height: 38,7 cm, Width: 33,3 cm and was crafted with Oil painting. The original artwork is inscribed with the following information: Apocryphal Signature - Signature apocryphal lower right in red: "Granet". Furthermore, the work of art is in the the digital collection of Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, which is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement. With courtesy of: Petit Palais Paris (license - public domain).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The curator, painter Hubert Robert was an artist from France, whose style can be attributed mainly to Rococo. The painter was born in the year 1733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased at the age of 75 in the year 1808.

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