Hubert Robert, 1793 - The Violation of the vaults of kings in the Basilica of Saint-Denis in October 1793 - fine art print

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In 1793 Hubert Robert created the 18th century artwork. The artwork measures the size: Height: 37 cm, Width: 45,8 cm. The masterpiece has the following inscription: Signing of the running - On the front of the canvas, bottom left, on a stone: "H / ROBERT.". This work of art is included in the Musée Carnavalet Paris's collection. With courtesy of: Musée Carnavalet Paris (public domain license).In addition to that, the artwork has the creditline: . Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. The curator, painter Hubert Robert was a European artist from France, whose style can be attributed mainly to Rococo. The European artist lived for 75 years and was born in the year 1733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and passed away in 1808 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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The Violation of the vaults of kings in the Basilica of Saint-Denis in October 1793. Architecture. Demolition. Historic stage. Révolution.Fossoyeurs. Coffin. Crypt.

The posthumous sale catalog Workshop Hubert Robert, in 1809, indicates the presence in the No. 95 two sketches whose topic is "demolished in the vaults of St. Denis." Our table is probably one of the sketches. After the destruction of the royal monuments, decreed by the Convention on the report of Barrere, had ripped the crypt of the abbey, that is to say, the ancient underground chapel of the Virgin built in the ninth century by the Hilduin abbot, became in 1683 the vault of the Bourbons, and had smashed the ground in search of royal sarcophagi.