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Plate 5: The Ancient Temple: a woman descending a staircase at left and giving alms to a beggar, a rotunda at right, from "Les soirées de Rome"

Hubert Robert

ca. 1763–64

Plate 5: The Ancient Temple: a woman descending a staircase at left and giving alms to a beggar, a rotunda at right, from "Les soirées de Rome" by Hubert Robert

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.7 x 15.5 cm) plate: 5 7/16 x 3 7/8 in. (13.8 x 9.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.41.5

Tags

TemplesWomen

About the Artist

Hubert Robert · 17331808

Hubert Robert, born on May 22, 1733, in Paris, emerged from a modest background; his father, Nicolas Robert, served the influential Choiseul family, whose patronage shaped the young artist's path. After completing his studies at the Jesuit Collège de Navarre in 1751, he entered the atelier of sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz, who taught him design and perspective before encouraging a shift to painting....

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