Hubert Robert - 1788
Oil on panel, 137cm x 101cm
Louvre
Hubert Robert was a popular landscape artist of the time and a good friend
of Vigee Le Brun's. "This is a striking masculine portrait. He was referred to as "Robert of
the Ruins" because of the romaticised buildings from antiquity included in
his compositions.-FK"
View two other pictures of this painting. Picture 1 and Picture 2
Countess Skavronskaia - 1790
Oil on canvas, 134.9 x 94.9 cm
Painted in Naples
Institut de France, Musee Jacquemart-Andre
Countess Ecaterina Vassilievna Skavronskaia, née Engelhardt, a niece
of Prince Potemkin, married Count Pavel Martynovich Skavronsky (1757-1793).
Vigée Le Brun painted her three times. Once in 1789 (Page 37) and twice in 1790 (this page and Page 64). View three more images of this painting.Image 1. Image 2. Image 3. Two of these may be the copies of the 1790 painting on this page listed in her master painting list.
Reference Kimbell Exhibition Catalog Number 30 for more details.
