# Ruins at Nimes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROBERT, Hubert]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 117 x 174 cm ## Commentary Usually enchanted by romantic, suggestive spectacle of ruins, Hubert Robert could also respond to the reverse - to the miracle of the survival of antiquity's monuments intact. At Nimes, in the Provence, the so-called Maison Carrée provides one of the best known of Roman buildings still to convey its original ancient state. Robert turned to this extraordinary site as the antithesis of his usual delight in decay. ## Related artworks - [A Boy and a Dog among Ruins]() - [A Grand Staircase]() - [A Scene in the Grounds of the Villa Farnese, Rome]() - [An Architectural Capriccio]() - [Ancient Roman Bath with Women Washing Laundry]() - [Ancient Ruins Used as Public Baths]() - [Architectural Capriccio]() - [Architectural Landscape with a Canal]() - [Architectural Scene with Women Washing Clothes at a Pool]() - [Avenue in a Park]() - [Demolition of the Houses on the Pont Notre-Dame in 1786]() - [Design for the Grande Galerie in the Louvre \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()