Léopold Louis Robert is a Swiss painter born in 1794 in La Chaux-de Fonds and died in 1835 in Venice.

He began to study engravers with Loclois Charles Girardet in 1810 in Paris and then at the School of Fine Arts in 1812, he also attended the studio of Jacques-Louis David where he perfected his talents as a painter and engraver.
He won a second Prix de Rome as an engraver in 1814. Back in the principality of Neuchâtel after the fall of the empire, he devoted himself to painting, painting numerous portraits. But in 1818 he left for a long trip to Italy, to Rome, where many families of imprisoned brigands would serve as his models. He frequented Juliette Récamier's salon and continued his travels to Naples and throughout Italy.

For the Paris Salon he presented four monumental seasons. In 1827 King Louis-Philippe bought the composition "Naples and Spring". At the Salon of 1831 he was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor. His works inspired great French writers, he died in Venice in 1835.

Both paintings are monogrammed LR.

The frames are being restored.