Léopold Robert

Works by this Artist

Brigand Asleep
Léopold Robert, 1826

Studies

with Jacques-Louis David in Paris (1812-15); briefly with Antoine-Jean Gros

Career

1810 – travelled to Paris with engraver Charles-Samuel Giradet (1780-1863)

1818 – travels to Rome funded by François Roulet de Mézerac in exchange for paintings

1824 – exhibits seven paintings at Paris Salon; critic Etienne-Jean Delecluze helps establish Robert’s reputation

1827 – exhibits Return from the Pilgrimage to the Virgin with a Bow at the Salon; purchased by French government for Louvre

1831 – exhibits Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes at the Salon; work is purchased by Louis Philippe (King of France); awarded Légion d’honneur

1835 – commits suicide on 10th anniversary of his brother’s suicide

Travels

Paris (1810-16; 1831); Italy (1818-1835)

Commissions from

François Roulet de Mézerac

Important Artworks

Brigand Asleep, 1819. First of 14 versions of this subject

Return from the Pilgrimage to the Virgin with a Bow, 1827 (Louvre, Paris)

Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes, 1830 (Louvre, Paris)

Readings

Birkett, M. “Lamartine and the Poetic Painting of Léopold Robert,” Symposium, vol. 33, no. 4 (1979): 299-311

Gassier, Pierre. Léopold Robert et les peintres de l’Italie romantique. Exhibition catalogue. Neuchâtel: Musée des beaux-arts, 1983 (in French)

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