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The Grove of the Baths of Apollo

Hubert Robert French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

Here, Robert shows woodcutters working under the watchful eye of their foreman and fashionable ladies surrounded by their entourage. In the background visitors observe the destruction of the Baths of Apollo. The emptiness of the park opened up broad vistas and allowed statues like the Tritons Grooming Two Horses of the Sun (at right) by Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy, sculptors employed by Louis XIV at Versailles, to stand out against the remaining trees.

The Grove of the Baths of Apollo, Hubert Robert (French, Paris 1733–1808 Paris), Oil on canvas

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