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Waterfall with a Drawing Artist
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Waterfall with a Drawing Artist

Hubert Robert (1733–1808) · 1760–1808 · Öl auf Leinwand

From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

The waterfall is a popular motif in Robert Hubert's work. He painted several pictures on this subject. In some, he depicts the drawing or painting artist before the natural spectacle of cascading water. Already during his stay in Rome, pictures with waterfalls were created, often showing the cascades in Tivoli, such as the picture formerly with Picard Tajan, Paris (Auction Pavilion Gabriel, 17.6.1977, no. 40) or the painting "The Waterfall" from 1762 (P.

Kunstmuseum Basel’s own description
Credit lineWasserfall mit zeichnendem Künstler. 1760–1808. Hubert Robert (1733–1808). Kunstmuseum Basel, Geschenk der Sophie und Karl Binding-Stiftung, Basel. Public domain.

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