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'''Nicolas Robert''' (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) was a French [[Illuminated manuscript|miniaturist]] and [[engraver]]. He was born in [[Langres]] and died in Paris.
In 1664 he was appointed as "peintre ordinaire de Sa Majesté pur la miniature" (Painter of Miniatures) to [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].
==Works==
Blunt highlights Robert's main works as follows:
* Illustrations within the book - ''[[Guirlande de Julie]]'' - which was produced by [[Nicholas Jarry]] as a gift for Julie Lucine d'Angennes from her future husband the [[Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier|Duke of Montausier]]. It was this work that made Robert famous and drew the attention of [[Gaston, Duke of Orléans]].
*Paintings of flowers on vellum for Gaston and latterly for [[Louis XIV]] that form the nucleus of the [[Recueil des vélins]] currently held in the [[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]] within the [[Jardin des Plantes]].
*Contributions to the [[Recueil des Plantes]] - a collection of engravings of flowers. Prints from these were published in the two-volume work - [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=338410883 Estampes de Plantes] and in [http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?cote=00514&do=chapitre Mémoires pour servir á l'Histoire des Plantes]
Other works include:
*[[Fiori Diversi]] - a small book of etchings of flowers published in Rome on 1640.
*[[Diverses Fleurs]] c 1660
*Sketchbooks A & B, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H.Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
*Livre des Tulipes, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H.Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
==Colleagues==
Robert worked with the following people:
* [[Robert Morison]] a Scottish botanist by whom it is believed that Robert was first prompted to take an interest in scientific botanic illustration.
*[[Denis Dodart]]
*[[Abraham Bosse]]
*[[Louis de Chastillon]]
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'''Nicolas Robert''' (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) was a French [[Illuminated manuscript|miniaturist]] and [[engraver]]. He was born in [[Langres]] and died in Paris.
In 1664 he was appointed as "peintre ordinaire de Sa Majesté pur la miniature" (Painter of Miniatures) to [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].
==Works==
Blunt highlights Robert's main works as follows:
* Illustrations within the book - ''[[Guirlande de Julie]]'' - which was produced by [[Nicholas Jarry]] as a gift for Julie Lucine d'Angennes from her future husband the [[Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier|Duke of Montausier]]. It was this work that made Robert famous and drew the attention of [[Gaston, Duke of Orléans]].
*Paintings of flowers on vellum for Gaston and latterly for [[Louis XIV]] that form the nucleus of the [[Recueil des vélins]] currently held in the [[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]] within the [[Jardin des Plantes]].
*Contributions to the [[Recueil des Plantes]] - a collection of engravings of flowers. Prints from these were published in the two-volume work - [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=338410883 Estampes de Plantes] and in [http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?cote=00514&do=chapitre Mémoires pour servir á l'Histoire des Plantes]
Other works include:
*[[Fiori Diversi]] - a small book of etchings of flowers published in Rome on 1640.
*[[Diverses Fleurs]] c 1660
*Sketchbooks A & B, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H.Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
*Livre des Tulipes, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H.Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
==Colleagues==
Robert worked with the following people:
* [[Robert Morison]] a Scottish botanist by whom it is believed that Robert was first prompted to take an interest in scientific botanic illustration.
*[[Denis Dodart]]
*[[Abraham Bosse]]
*[[Louis de Chastillon]]
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