HUBERT ROBERT's set of six panels for the Comte d'Artois

Based on a bet with Queen Marie Antoinette, King Louis XV’s youngest brother, the comte d’Artois, had a pleasure pavilion built on the outskirts of Paris in a mere sixty-four days through the labor of more than eight hundred craftsmen. Robert’s six paintings of Italian landscapes were installed in an elaborate bathing room, prompting their overarching theme of water. Having spent eleven years in Italy, where he befriended Jean Honoré Fragonard and other French artists abroad, Robert knew ancient architecture and sculpture deeply. In this series, however, instead of antiquarian exactitude, he combined sources freely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Bagatelle

The Bathing Pool

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437473

Wandering Minstrels
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437481

 

The Dance

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437476

The Swing

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437480

The Fountain

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437477

The Mouth of a Cave

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437470

This last painting has a different date to the others.  Why ?

Hubert Robert's escape from the guillotine is an interesting story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Robert

Postscript ... Le Comte d'Artois when young ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X