Explore the Background of this artwork, The Bathing Pool.
The Bathing Pool is one of six paintings that Charles Philippe, comte d'Artois (1757–1836) commissioned from Robert in 1777. The paintings were for the bathing room at the Château de Bagatelle. The six paintings depict generally Italian locations. The Bathing Pool, dated to 1777–1780, was made as a pendant to A Corner of the Courtyard of the Capitol.
Château de Bagatelle