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Artist:
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Hubert Robert
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Title:
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The Rustic Bridge, Château de Méréville, France
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Date:
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c. 1785
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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25 3/4 x 21 in. (65.41 x 53.34 cm) (canvas)
24 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (62.87 x 52.07 cm) (sight)
34 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 4 in. (88.27 x 76.84 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 306
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Château de Méréville, one of the first English-style parks in France, was designed by Hubert Robert for the Marquis de Laborde, who purchased the estate in 1784. The plans for the chateau's gardens combined the naturalism of English landscape design with Chinese-influenced structural elements, representing a complete break from the traditional symmetry and rigid geometry of French landscape architecture. Over the course of a decade, marshes were drained, a mountain was moved, and a river was rerouted and shaped into a sinuous, winding course in order to create an idealized, romantic retreat.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Robert, Hubert
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1733 - 1808
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Landscape. Romantic landscape with large trees, and a bridge suspended between two great rocks. In the foreground groups of figures strolling, talking and riding. This scene painted at the Chateau de Méréville.
Park Méréville
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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33.14
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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