# Hubert Robert [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PAJOU, Augustin]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Like nearly all his fellow sculptors, Pajou was also employed as a portraitist; like them he showed his most sustained ability in this category of work. He was capable of being inspired to fine effect by the right sitter. It was probably through is master Lemoyne that Pajou received the commission for a bust of Louis XV. He was to carve likenesses of both Marie Leczinska and the dauphin \(a posthumous portrait\), but he remained most successful in portraying those people he really knew. The bust of Hubert Robert, the painter, is the result of friendship and knowledge, as well as talent. It was shown at the Salon of 1789. ## Related artworks - [Bas-relief]() - [Bas-relief]() - [Bust of Louis XVI]() - [Bust of Madame du Barry]() - [Head of a Bearded Elder]() - [Head of a Bearded Old Man]() - [Madame de Wailly \(detail\)]() - [Madame de Wailly]() - [Mantel clock]() - [Psyche Abandoned]() - [The Princess of Hesse-Homburg as Minerva]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()