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Hubert Robert  (1733 –  1808)

• Was a French painter.
• The contrast between the ruins of ancient Rome and the life of his time excited his keenest interest.
• He worked for a time in the studio of Pannini.
• Robert was arrested in October 1793, during the French Revolution.
• During the ten months of his detention at Sainte-Pélagie and Saint-Lazare he made many drawings, painted at least 53 canvases, and painted numerous vignettes of prison life on plates.
• He was freed one week after the fall of Robespierre.
• Robert narrowly escaped the guillotine when through error another prisoner died in his place.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Interior of the Tample of Diana at Nimes, 1783.
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