# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COTTE, Robert de]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Robert de Cotte was one of the most influential architects of the first half of the eighteenth century. He should be regarded mainly as a planner and designer, the realization of his proposals was mostly left to other master builders local to the sites. This was how the Strasbourg architect Joseph Massol \(c.1706-1771\) realized his most magnificent project, the Palais de Rohan, seat of the prince-bishop of Strasbourg. The most significant feature of this building, designed as a monumental hôtel, is the façade onto the Ilm, with seventeen window apertures and a dominant central pavilion with giant orders. ## Related artworks - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()