Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Nicolas Robert

French painter (1614–1685 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

Nicolas Robert (18 April 1614 25 March 1685) was a French miniaturist and engraver.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...
Remove ads

Biography

He was born in Langres and died in Paris.

In 1664, he was appointed as "peintre ordinaire de Sa Majesté pur la miniature" (Painter of Miniatures) to French king Louis XIV.

Works

The art curator and writer Wilfrid Blunt highlights Robert's main works as follows:

Other works include:

  • Fiori Diversi, a small book of etchings of flowers published in Rome in 1640
  • Diverses Fleurs, c. 1660
  • Sketchbooks A & B, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H. Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
  • Livre des Tulipes, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H. Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
Remove ads

Colleagues

Robert worked with the following people:

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads