Lot n° 91
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HUBERT ROBERT
* HUBERT ROBERT (PARIS 1733-1808)
THE CASCATELLES OF TIVOLI
Canvas.
241 x 217 cm
Since the 16th
century, the ancient city of Tivoli, whose landscape is a mixture
is a mixture of natural picturesque and ruins, has seduced
several generations of artists and collectors, embodying for many the
the ideal landscape for many. Located about 30 km from Rome, Tivoli
kilometers from Rome, Tivoli has enjoyed an attraction since ancient times
due to the exceptional beauty of its mountainous site and its
waterfalls. Shortly before our era, Maecenas, the protector of the Arts, had two
had two temples built there, among which the one of Vesta, many
many times represented.
The interest of painters and travelers reached its peak
in the second half of the XVIIIth century, notably with the fashion
for the Antique and the ruins. Tivoli became an obligatory stop
for most of the artists staying in Rome.
Joseph Vernet, considered the best landscape painter of his generation
generation, painted about forty views of Tivoli, some of them during the
during the twenty years he spent in Italy. The others from
sketches, on his return to France. In the following generation, we can mention
artists as different as Jean-Pierre Houël,
François Boucher, Honoré Fragonard, Gaspar Vanvitelli or
Giovanni Battista Piranesi....
Tivoli could not but seduce Hubert Robert, as shown by the
the numerous paintings he made during his career.
his career. He visited the site several times during his stay in Rome
his stay in Rome between 1754 and 1765.
In 1769, three years after his reception as an architectural painter
of architecture at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture,
Hubert Robert exhibited at the Salon the first representation
Cascatelles de Tivoli (Pau, Musée des Beaux-Arts; see the
catalog of the exhibition Hubert Robert, un peintre visionnaire,
Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2016, n°38, reproduced). Our painting
adopts a slightly different point of view.
The staggered planes of the subject magnify the population
of the Roman countryside, then the waterfall and the ruins of the
monuments on either side (the temple of Vesta and the villa
the villa of Maecenas). This choice of composition and the variety of the
natural elements depicted, offer multiple changes of
chromatic tonalities. This process is even more ambitious
that Hubert Robert produced several variations of views of Tivoli,
which he exhibited at the Salon in 1769, 1771, 1773 and 1777. When he
does not change the framing, he varies the motifs, for example the
temple of Vesta can be shown from several sides, with or without the
or without the neighboring church, while the figures and animals are
can be changed.
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