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18th Century French School, Signed And Dated, Vestale Tending The Sacred Fire
18th-century French school, possibly François Hubert (1740-1809)?
Vestal tending the sacred fire
Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right "Hubert 1775"
Dimension: 87 x 76 cm
Dimension with frame: 104 x 93 cm
The only painter matching the Hubert signature would be an 18th-century engraver, François Hubert (1740-1809). A watercolor attributed to him is signed in the same way as our work. No certainty?
Vestal tending the sacred fire
Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right "Hubert 1775"
Dimension: 87 x 76 cm
Dimension with frame: 104 x 93 cm
The only painter matching the Hubert signature would be an 18th-century engraver, François Hubert (1740-1809). A watercolor attributed to him is signed in the same way as our work. No certainty?
This refined composition, signed and dated 1775, depicts a vestal woman watching over the sacred fire, an emblematic figure of purity and devotion in Roman antiquity.
The work is part of a trend in late 18th-century French painting, at the hinge between late Rococo and the beginnings of Neoclassicism, where reference to Antiquity becomes a moral and aesthetic vector.
The quality of the modeling, the mastery of fabrics and the softness of complexions testify to a solid academic training.
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