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| A Colonnade in Ruins |
Artist:Hubert Robert (French, Paris 1733–1808 Paris)
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:23 x 61 1/8 in. (58.4 x 155.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
The ruins in this painting are modelled after Bernini's renowned colonnade for Saint Peter's in Rome. Its pendant, Arches in Ruins (17.190.31), is exhibited in this gallery on the opposite wall over the door.
Catalogue Entry
The painting is the companion piece to Arches in Ruins (17.190.31) and the compositions and color schemes of the two are sympathetic. The open arcade would have been recognizable to many of Robert’s contemporaries as the curving portico through which you approach St. Peter’s basilica, here transferred to a green bank in front of a mountain landscape, deprived of the statues on its roofline, and reduced to decay. Plant life flourishes on the cornice. Impending decay and the passage of time are suggested.
Katharine Baetjer 2011
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