Cutting Down Trees
Hubert Robert (Paris 1733 - Paris 1808)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Gouache, Vellum
Measurements
8.25 in (h)9.875 in (w)
Collection
Buscot and Coleshill Estates, Oxfordshire
NT 1510240.2
Summary
Gouache on vellum, Cutting Down Trees at Versailles by Hubert Robert (Paris 1733 - Paris 1808). One of a pair of paintings after Hubert Robert. Viaduct in distance, while in the foreground - men, women and children stand among trunks and classical statuary. Two children use plank as see saw on a trunk. No label. (See also NT/BOP/D/27A)
Makers and roles
Hubert Robert (Paris 1733 - Paris 1808), artist