Marius Hubert-Robert
Marius Hubert-Robert was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator.
Biography
Hubert-Robert was born in Paris in 1885. He is the great-great nephew of the celebrated landscape painter Hubert Robert. His artistic ancestry also includes Aphonse Robert who was the private painter of Louis Philippe I, and Jean-Francois Robert (his great-grand father, Professor of painting at the Grand Duchy of Tuscany during the Napoleonic Era.Career
Hubert-Robert mounted notable exhibitions at the Salon des Indépendants in 1929, at the Société des Artistes Français, at the Société Nouvelle des Beaux Arts, and at the Salon d'Hiver.As a painter in the 10th Army during World War I, Hubert-Robert donated two of his war paintings to the Musée du Luxembourg.
Among his principal exhibitions are:
- Paris, Galerie Charpentier "De l'Alaska à la Terre de Feu"; "Sous le signe du Soleil, Afrique du Nord" ; "Le Bassin Méditerranéen" ; Galerie Petit, Hôtel de la Duchesse de Rohan, Galerie Mona Lisa à Paris;
- London: The Mansion House, Alpin Club;
- United States: New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, Buffalo;
- Canada: Québec, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria;
- Brazil: Rio de Janeiro;
- Argentina: Buenos Aires, Rosario de Santa Fe
- Other: Athens, Zurich, Munich, Algiers, and Beyrouth.
Hubert-Robert was sponsored by the Astor family for a decade, allowing him to travel extensively, notably to the United States and Canada, but also to Africa, Greece and Indochina. He also worked with the magazine L'Illustration.