Christophe Huet
Christophe Huet (* 1694 or 1700 in Pontoise , † 2. May 1759 in Paris ) was a French Rococo - decorator , draftsman and painter who was active at the mid-18th century. He came from a family of artists: his grandfather was a gilder, his father a painter and his nephew Jean-Baptiste Huet later became the most famous painter in the family.
Until 1733 Huet worked with the decorator Claude Audran III in Anet Castle , where he participated in the now lost Salon doré on the order of Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon . The following year he was accepted into the Guild of Luke . In 1751, 1752, 1753 and 1756 he exhibited animal paintings , which were his specialty, at the salons organized by the St. Luke's Guild . An ensemble of ten paintings with fantasy landscapes and numerous animals, especially exotic birds, has been preserved; they are now hanging in Chantilly Castle . However, some of the animal paintings are likely to be imitations of works by the painter François Desportes .
Several ensembles have been preserved in their entirety from the work as a decorator that Huet carried out in the Rococo style. These include the small monkey cabinet , a ladies' room in Chantilly Castle from 1735, the large monkey cabinet , a state room that was created in the same place in 1737, the Salon chinois in the Champs-sur-Marne castle from 1747 and another monkey cabinet in Hôtel de Rohan from 1751.
Web links
literature
- Nicole Garnier-Pelle, Anne Forray-Carlier and Marie-Christine Anselm: Singeries & exotisme chez Christophe Huet . Monelle Hayot, 2010, ISBN 2-903824-69-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Christophe Huet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on November 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Régis Decottignies: Les singeries de Christophe Huet (1700–1759). (PDF; 9.8 MB) (No longer available online.) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on November 24, 2013 (winter 2006/07). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Larousse "Dictionnaire de la peinture": Christophe Huet. Retrieved November 24, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huet, Christophe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Rococo decorator, draftsman and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1694 or 1700 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pontoise |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1759 |
| Place of death | Paris |