Robert, Léopold

Related Category: European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies

(lāôpôld´ rōbĕr´), 1794–1835, French genre painter, b. Switzerland; pupil of J. L. David. He excelled in depicting Italian folk life in a classical style. His two best-known paintings, Pilgrimage of the Madonna of the Arc and Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes, are in the Louvre.