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suicide in 1835. Occupied in Paris mostly with copies after his brother's works in 1836-37, he went to Venice again in 1838, and five years later returned to Switzerland, whence he visited the Breisgau in 1869. His execution was very careful, though somewhat heavy. Medal, Paris, 2d class, 1831. Works: Interior of St. Mark's, Venice, Basle Museum; do. (1854), Berne Museum; do. (1844), Interior of Baptismal Chapel, ib.; Young Girl of Procida. Interior of Léopold Robert's Studio in Rome (1829), Neuchâtel Museum; Chapel in St. Mark's, Venice, Sacristy at Lugano, Zürich Gallery; Baptismal Ceremony in Chapel in St. Mark's, Venice (1842), National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 186; Rahn, Kunst- und Wanderstudien in der Schweiz (Vienna, 1883), 346.
ROBERT, HUBERT, called Robert des
Ruines, born in Paris, May 22, 1733, died
there, April 15, 1808. Landscape painter,
pupil of Pannini; spent twelve years at
Rome. Member of Academy, 1766; and
appointed custodian of the Louvre by the
Directory. Works: Harbour of Ripetta near
Rome (1766), Triumphal Arch at Orange
(1767), Portico of Octavius (1785), Temple
of Jupiter in Rome (1787), Maison Carrée
(1787), Round Temple (1788), and seven
others, Louvre; Two Views in Gardens of
Versailles (1777), Pont Notre Dame, Paris,
Pont-au-Change and Clock Tower, ib.
(1788), National Confederation on the
Champ de Mars (1790), Versailles Museum;
View of Ancient Aqueducts, Trianon Palace;
Interior of Maison Carrée at Nîmes,
Pont du Gard, Fontainebleau Palace; Fountain
of Minerva, Rome (1772), Angers Museum;
Ruins of Imperial Palace—Rome, do.
of Temple, Interior of Thermæ of Diocletian,
Besançon Museum; Antique Ruins (2),
Bordeaux Museum; Aqueducts of Maintenant,
Ruins of Forum Palladium, Chartres
Museum; Interior of Antique Temple with
Religious Ceremony, Stable under Ancient
Building, Dijon Museum; others in Museums
of Marseilles, Montpellier, Orléans,
Rouen (6), Troyes; View of the Pantheon,
Darmstadt Museum; Ruins of Temple at
Girgenti,
Stone Bridge,
Hermitage, St.
Petersburg.—Bellier,
ii. 391;
Ch. Blanc,
École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune,
Guide, i. 272; iii. 317.
ROBERT, LÉO PAUL, born at Bienne, Switzerland; contemporary. History and, genre painter, pupil of his father and of Gérôme. Medal, 3d class, 1877. Works: Evening Zephyrs (1877); The Nymph Echo (1878); Christ with Lazarus, Genii of the Forest (1879); First Spring (1882); Beech-Woods at Romont (1883).
ROBERT, (LOUIS) LÉOPOLD, born at
La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland,
May 13, 1794,
died in Venice, March
25, 1835. Genre
painter, pupil of
David in Paris,
whither he had gone
with the engraver
Charles Ghirardet,
his first instructor. After winning the 2d
grand prix for engraving (1814), and frequenting
for a short time the studio of Gros
in 1815, he returned home, where he painted
many excellent portraits and found a
patron in M. Roullet Mezerac, who offered
him the means to go to Rome in 1818;
there he devoted himself to painting scenes
from the life of the people. This he did
with a poetry which raised his popular subjects
to the dignity of history, and made
him equal to the foremost artists of his
time. In 1824 he won the first prize in
Paris, visited that city, and his native country
in 1831, but soon returned to Italy, settling
at Florence, whence he removed to
Venice to complete his picture, The Fishers
of the Adriatic. In a fit of melancholia
he committed suicide. Medal, Paris, 1822;