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Léopold Louis Robert

Also known as: Léopold Louis Robert; primary name: Robert, Léopold; other name: Robert, Léopold Louis
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; Swiss; Male
Life dates: 1794-1835
Biography: Painter and engraver. B. in Neuchâtel canton in Switzerland, to Paris in the early 1810s where trained in the studio of Jacques Louis David (q.v.). When Neuchâtel was restored to Prussia after Napoleon's fall and David went into exile, Robert, now a foreigner, lost the right to compete in the Prix de Rome and returned to Switzerland. The patronage of Roullet de Mezerac allowed him to travel to Italy, which proved a great influence on his art. Focusing on depicting the Italian people, he decided to paint a cycle of four large canvases on the four seasons set in four different parts of Italy. Robert painted three of them (Return from the pilgrimage to the Madonna dell'Arco, 1827; Reapers arriving in the Pontine Marshes, 1831; Fishermen of the Adriatic, 1835), but commited suicide in 1835.
Bibliography: Camilla Murgia, 'L & A Robert, reproductibilité et diffusion de l'oeuvre peint à travers la gravure', Neufchatel 2011.

29 related objects

print

Museum number: 1875,0612.103 |
Producer name: Print made by:Léopold Louis RobertPublished by:Goupil |
Production date: 1815-1835

print

Title: Les pêcheurs |
Museum number: 1885,1010.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Museum number: 1875,0612.102 |
Producer name: Print made by:Léopold Louis RobertPublished by:Goupil |
Production date: 1815-1835

print

Title: Les Pêcheurs |
Museum number: 1885,1010.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: La Madone de l'Arc |
Museum number: 1885,1010.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: La Madone de l'Arc |
Museum number: 1885,1010.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: La Madone de l'Arc |
Museum number: 1885,1010.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: La Madone de l'Arc |
Museum number: 1885,1010.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: Léopold Robert |
Museum number: 1901,1022.800 |
Producer name: Print made by:Zachée PrévostAfter:Aurèle Robert |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Les pêcheurs |
Museum number: 1885,1010.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: Les Pêcheurs |
Museum number: 1885,1010.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: Pêcheur et jeune fille de Procida |
Museum number: 1895,1015.149 |
Producer name: Print made by:Alphonse LamotteAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1878 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Title: The bandit's wife |
Museum number: 1870,0813.151 |
Producer name: Print made by:John OutrimAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1843

print

Title: La pélerine |
Museum number: 1875,0410.45 |
Producer name: Print made by:Zéphirin BelliardAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1820-1861

print

Museum number: 1868,0612.363 |
Producer name: Print made by:Franz Xaver WinterhalterAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1825-1832

print

Title: Eine Neapolitanerin mit ihrem kranken Kinde Lithographierte Arbeiten vorzüglicher moderner Wer |
Museum number: 1868,0328.462 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann WölfleAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1849-1851

print

Title: La Madone de l'Arc |
Museum number: 1885,1010.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Museum number: 1856,0510.1204 |
Producer name: Print made by:Paolo MercuriAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1831

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Léopold Robert |
Museum number: 1886,1012.436 |
Producer name: Print made by:Aurèle RobertPrinted by:Frey |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Title: L'improvisateur Galerie du Palais Royal |
Museum number: 1860,0728.192 |
Producer name: Print made by:François BellayAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1825-1829

print

Title: Les Pêcheurs |
Museum number: 1885,1010.20 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print

Title: A peasant girl of Procida |
Museum number: 1982,U.2081 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas HollisAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1835-1843

print

Title: Les pêcheurs de l'Adriatique |
Museum number: 1878,0511.1055 |
Producer name: Print made by:Théophile Victor DesclauxAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Les Pêcheurs |
Museum number: 1885,1010.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ferdinand JoubertAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1854

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The bandit's wife |
Museum number: 1873,1213.572 |
Producer name: Print made by:John OutrimAfter:Léopold Louis Robert |
Production date: 1843 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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