1760
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A Palace with an Arched Bridge (A Roman Villa) is a 1760 by Hubert Robert, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Hubert Robert painted a grand stone palace with a tall arched bridge over a river. The building has big windows and a garden wall. Trees and a boat add life to the scene. Robert spent five years in Rome before making this watercolor. He mixed real buildings with his imagination. The bridge looks real but the whole scene is made up. See how Robert’s mix of old and new feels dreamy. Check out more of his work at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Hubert Robert had been living in Rome for five years when he executed this watercolor. He was fascinated by the architecture and gardens he saw in Italy and became especially interested in the picturesque interaction between Italy's rich artistic past and the daily life he saw on the streets. This sheet does not represent an actual view. It is, rather, an invention of the artist, who liked to create architectural fantasies by combining the different types of structures he became familiar with in Rome. Here, he enlivened the view with washerwomen doing laundry.
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Hubert Robert (French pronunciation: ; 22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.
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