Le Puits
1764
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1764
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
This shows a crumbling archway over a dry well in Rome. A woman in old-fashioned clothes looks up from the shadows. Two men stand beside her, one holding a ladder. Robert made this from his own drawings. He turned real places into imaginary scenes. The light plays oddly on the stones, like late afternoon in summer. Check out more by Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808) next.
