The Maison carree, painting by Hubert Robert. The Maison carree is an ancient Roman temple in Nimes, southern France; it is one of the best preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. Painting by Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 - 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France