Hubert Robert

Hubert Robert
Born22 May 1733
Paris, France
Died15 April 1808(1808-04-15) (aged 74)
Paris, France

Hubert Robert (French pronunciation: [ybɛʁ ʁɔbɛʁ]; 22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.