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ART PAGE 17
Hubert Robert - 1788
Oil on panel, 137cm x 101cm
Louvre
Hubert Robert was a popular landscape artist of the time and a good friend of Vigee Le Brun's. "This is a striking masculine portrait. He was referred to as "Robert of the Ruins" because of the romaticised buildings from antiquity included in his compositions.-FK" View two other pictures of this painting.
Picture 1 and Picture 2


Countess Skavronskaya - 1790
Oil on canvas, 135 x 95 cm
Painted in Naples
Institut de France, Musee Jacquemart-Andre
Countess Skavronskaya, née Ecaterina Vassilievna Engelhardt, a niece of Prince Potemkin, married Count Pavel Martynovich Skavronsky (1757-1793). This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition. View another image of this portrait. Vigée Le Brun painted her three times. Once in 1789 (Page 37) and twice in 1790 (this page and Page 64). View three more images of this painting.Image 1. Image 2. Image 3. Two of these may be the copies of the 1790 painting on this page listed in her master painting list.
Reference Kimbell Exhibition Catalog Number 30 for more details.

Emma Hart, The Future Lady Hamilton, As Ariadne -1790
Oil on canvas, 134.9 x 158.1 cm
Private Collection
View another version of this picture by Henry Bone after Vigee Le Brun.
Reference Kimbell Exhibition Catalog Number 31 for more details.


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