Paul Huet
Paul Huet (born October 3, 1803 in Paris , † January 9, 1869 there ) was a French painter , draftsman and etcher .
From 1820 he was a student of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , first under Antoine-Jean Gros , then under Pierre Narcisse Guérin , in whose studio he became friends with Eugène Delacroix . At the same time he trained in the studio of the Académie Suisse (1822). By studying nature, he established the poetic mood landscape in France in contrast to the classical direction, which is why he took his motifs almost exclusively from France and Holland.
He mostly worked in the vicinity of Saint-Cloud , but also made study trips to Normandy, Brittany, and England, Belgium, Holland and Italy (1840).
The following are to be mentioned of his extremely attractive landscapes:
- A thunderstorm in the evening (1831)
- Autumn evening (1838)
- Sunset with autumn mist
- The flooding of Saint-Cloud / Inondation de Saint-Cloud (1855, main work)
- Great flood at Honfleur
- The Black Rocks (1861)
- Shores of Houlgatt (1863)
- Evening in the Alps (1864)
- The flood of the Gave (1865)
- The grove near the Hague / Bois de la Haye (1866)
He also executed decorative paintings ( Life in Normandy , in eight pictures), lithographs, etchings (main sheet: The sources of Royat ) and illustrations on Paul and Virginie and the Indian hut in a very fine and atmospheric way.
Huet is the father of the painter René Paul Huet (* 1844).
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| SURNAME | Huet, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, draftsman and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1869 |
| Place of death | Paris |