Online Lecture: Painting as protest in the prisons of the French Revolution.

Mackelvie Society LECTURE SERIES WITH Sophie Matthiesson 2021:

Painting as protest in the prisons of the French Revolution.

In this talk Senior Curator of International Art, Dr Sophie Matthiesson uncovers the extraordinary story behind a group of well-known landscapes painted on plates in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, by the renowned French landscape and decorative artist Hubert Robert (1733-1808) during his imprisonment as a political suspect.

An online lecture held 13 April 2021.
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Image credit: Hubert Robert, Landscape painted on a plate, 1794. Oil on hexagonal plate, Musée Carnavalet, Paris.