Le Pont du Gard (1787) - Hubert Robert
Oil on Canvas
Paris, Musee de Lourve
From Wikipedia:
“In 1786 his great-great-great-grandson Louis XVI commissioned the artist Hubert Robert to produce a set of paintings of Roman ruins of southern France to hang in the king’s new dining room at the Palace of Fontainebleau, including a picture depicting the Pont du Gard in an idealized landscape. The commission was meant to reassert the ties between the French monarchy and the imperial past.”
