1764
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Post is a 1764 ink by Hubert Robert, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Robert Hubert’s *The Post* shows a horse and rider stopping at a roadside inn. The rider wears a tricorn hat. A dog sniffs the ground nearby. This etching uses fine lines to capture light and shadow. It dates from the 1760s, when prints like this spread news and stories. The small details—like the inn’s sign—hint at daily life then. If you like this, check out more by Hubert Robert.
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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