Project for the Disposition of the Grande Galerie (mk05)
French Rococo Era Painter, 1733-1808
French painter, draughtsman, etcher and landscape designer. He was one of the most prolific and engaging landscape painters in 18th-century France. He specialized in architectural scenes in which topographical elements derived from the buildings and monuments of ancient and modern Italy and of France are combined in often fantastic settings or fictitious juxtapositions. The fluid touch and rich impasto employed in his paintings
1796
Canvas 44 x 56 1/4''(112 x 143 cm)Shows Robert himself painting,on the right Salon of 1796;bought for the palace of Tsarkoe-Selo near Leningrad;Private collections in Buenos Aires and New York;acquired in 1975 R.F
Painting ID:: 20760
