Artwork
Italian Park
Italian Park is an oil painting by the Rococo painting artist Hubert Robert. It dates from 1750 and is held in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
About this work
Overview
Italian Park is a painting created by French artist Hubert Robert around 1750. It is an oil-on-canvas work held in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts a serene Italianate landscape, featuring a stone staircase, lush greenery, and two figures. The scene is characteristic of Robert's capricci, which often combined real and imagined elements of Italian and French landscapes.
Technique & Style
Rendered in the Rococo style, Italian Park showcases Robert's use of chiaroscuro to create depth and dimensionality. The light source, coming from the right, adds to the tranquil atmosphere of the scene.
History & Provenance
The painting is part of Robert's broader body of landscape paintings, created during a period associated with the emergence of Romanticism. It is now part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum's collection.
Artist & collection
Artist
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…
- Italian Landscape
Landscape with a Terrace and Cascade
Garden of an Italian Villa
Laundresses in the courtyard
Scene in a Park
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