Hubert RobertFrankrijk, 1733–1808Le port de Ripetta
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Musée de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Parijs, Frankrijk
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Over het schilderij
A View of Ripetta is a 1766 landscape painting by the French artist Hubert Robert. A veduta, it depicts the historic Porto di Ripetta, a port that served the city of Rome. In capriccio style, it features the Pantheon immediately behind it. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1767 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is part of the collection of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, having been acquired in 1884.
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- Inventarisnummer
- Pture MRA 123 ; Louvre 7635 (Inv Louvre)
Intussen, in het leven van Hubert Robert
Het hele leven1754–1765 · Werkzaam in
Rome
1754–1765
Roman circle: Panini, Piranesi, Fragonard
In Rome Robert studied perspective under the veduta master Giovanni Paolo Panini, met Piranesi, and became friends with Jean-Honoré Fragonard and the Abbé de Saint-Non; with Fragonard he drew from nature in Rome and its environs and stayed for long periods at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli.
August 1765
Return to Paris
After eleven years in Italy Robert returned to Paris, where his success was swift.
1766 · Lidmaatschap
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
1767
Debut at the Paris Salon
Robert presented thirteen paintings and numerous drawings of ruined classical architecture at the Salon, winning critical acclaim; Diderot wrote: "The ideas that ruins awaken in me are grand." He continued to take part in the Salons regularly until 1798.
