Shop art print and framed art Interior of the Temple of Diana in Nîmes by Hubert Robert

Interior of the Temple of Diana in Nîmes is one of the paintings in the series Principaux Monuments de la France by the ruin painter Hubert Robert on the remains of Gaul, a large oil painting intended to decorate a salon at the Château de Fontainebleau. The series, commissioned in 1786 and completed in 1787, was never installed in its intended location. The paintings have been in the Musée du Louvre since 1822, following a bequest from the painter's widow. The Temple of Diana (actually a library) is a Roman vestige in Nîmes, accessible via the Jardins de la Fontaine. Hubert Robert painted several versions of it, including an initial version from 1771, probably based on a sketch he had made from memory in Rome, which includes several imaginary details (bas-relief of the tympanum, vault caissons, reversal of the pediments of the niches, columns, statues, etc.), some of which reinforce the fantasy ruin aspect (the lintels on the left are missing, as in all the versions, although they are still in place today, or even in 1826, as the view by Charles Léopold Émile Henry [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the neoclassicism styles and romanticism styles.

 

« Interior of the Temple of Diana in Nîmes » is kept at Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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