![Louis Leopold Robert - Summer Reapers Arriving in the Pontine Marshes [1831]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5598/15021986773_13ddef6c3b_o.jpg)
Louis Leopold Robert (La Chaux-de-Fonds, May 13, 1794 - March 20, 1835) was a Swiss painter. The work which appeared in 1831, "Summer Reapers arriving in the Pontine Marshes", which became the property of Louis Philippe, established the artist's reputation. Worn by the vicissitudes of painful feeling, and bitterly discouraged, Robert committed suicide before his easel on March 20, 1835, on the tenth anniversary of the melancholy suicide of a brother to whom he had been much attached.
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas]