Visitors leaving a prison 1794-95 Hubert Robert French During the second half of the eighteenth century in France, Hubert Robert was a fashionable artist. Painter of ruins, professor of landscape drawing, curator for the future Louvre museum from 1777, and draftsman of the gardens of the king from 1778, he counted among his clientele the royal family, the most eminent members of the court in Versailles, voluntarily exiled aristocrats like the Noailles family, and powerful financiers like the marquis de Laborde. As a result, and like many of his colleagues, Robert endured the consequences of the French Revolution which began in 1789. He was suspected "for his recognized incivism and his links with the aristocrats" by the members of the Convention on October 3, 1793 and was imprisoned in the Sainte-Pélagie prison from October 29, 1793 to January 31, 1794, before being transferred to the Saint-Lazare prison, where he remained until his release on August 4, 1794. If Robert escaped the guil
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