# Nicolas Robert

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Not to be confused with balloonist [Nicolas-Louis Robert](/source/Nicolas-Louis_Robert) or inventor [Louis-Nicolas Robert](/source/Louis-Nicolas_Robert).

**Nicolas Robert** (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) was a French [miniaturist](/source/Illuminated_manuscript) and [engraver](/source/Engraver).

## Biography

He was born in [Langres](/source/Langres) and died in Paris.

In 1664, he was appointed as *"peintre ordinaire de Sa Majesté pur la miniature"* (Painter of Miniatures) to French king [Louis XIV](/source/Louis_XIV).

## Works

The art curator and writer [Wilfrid Blunt](/source/Wilfrid_Jasper_Walter_Blunt) highlights Robert's main works as follows:

- Illustrations within the book – *[Guirlande de Julie](/source/Guirlande_de_Julie)* – which was produced by [Nicolas Jarry](/source/Nicolas_Jarry_(calligrapher)) as a gift for Julie Lucine d'Angennes from her future husband, the [Duke of Montausier](/source/Charles_de_Sainte-Maure,_duc_de_Montausier). It was this work that made Robert famous and drew the attention of [Gaston, Duke of Orléans](/source/Gaston,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans).
- Paintings of flowers on [vellum](/source/Vellum) for Gaston and latterly for Louis XIV that form the nucleus of the [Recueil des vélins](/source/Recueil_des_v%C3%A9lins) now held in the French [National Museum of Natural History](/source/National_Museum_of_Natural_History,_France) within the [Jardin des Plantes](/source/Jardin_des_Plantes) in Paris.
- Contributions to the [Recueil des Plantes](/source/Recueil_des_Plantes) – a collection of engravings of flowers. Prints from these were published in the two-volume work – *[Estampes de Plantes](http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=338410883)*[dead link] and in *[Mémoires pour servir á l'Histoire des Plantes](http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?cote=00514&do=chapitre)*.

Other works include:

- *[Fiori Diversi](/source/Fiori_Diversi)*, a small book of etchings of flowers published in Rome in 1640
- *[Diverses Fleurs](/source/Diverses_Fleurs)*, c. 1660
- *Sketchbooks A & B*, in the [Austrian National Library](/source/Austrian_National_Library), detailed in [H. Walter Lack](/source/H._Walter_Lack)'s *Garden of Eden* ([Taschen](/source/Taschen): 2008)
- *Livre des Tulipes*, in the [Austrian National Library](/source/Austrian_National_Library), detailed in [H. Walter Lack](/source/H._Walter_Lack)'s *Garden of Eden* ([Taschen](/source/Taschen): 2008)

## Colleagues

Robert worked with the following people:

- [Abraham Bosse](/source/Abraham_Bosse)
- [Louis de Chastillon](/source/Louis_de_Chastillon)
- [Denis Dodart](/source/Denis_Dodart)
- [Robert Morison](/source/Robert_Morison), a Scottish botanist by whom it is believed that Robert was first prompted to take an interest in scientific botanic illustration

## References

- [Blunt, Wilfrid](/source/Wilfrid_Jasper_Walter_Blunt) (1950). Chapter 9 of *[The Art of Botanical Illustration](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1851491775)*. London: Collins.
- [Artfact](http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?1=1&searchType=artist&artistRef=TVMN78CA7N)
- [ILAB](http://www.ilab.org/db/book1767_ST10261.html)[dead link]

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