Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable
1857 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 148.5 × 106.6 cm
Collection: Art Whisperer
Portrait of Louis Guéymard in the title role of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable, in the last scene of Act 1 in which Robert gambles with dice, loses his entire estate, and sings the aria "L’or est une chimère" (Gold is but an illusion).
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About this artwork
Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable (1857) by Gustave Courbet, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.
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