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ROBERT, Hubert
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The_Maison_Carre_at_Nimes_with_the_Amphitheater_and_the_Magne_Tower_(mk05)
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The Maison Carre at Nimes with the Amphitheater and the Magne Tower (mk05)
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| Canvas 95 1/2 x 96''(243 x 244 cm)This painting plus the next three were commissioned in 1786 fro a salon in the Chateau de Fontainebleau;all are the same size and have the same provenance.Salon of 1787;remained in the artist's studio and bequeathed by his widow in 1822 INV |
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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
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