A Bridge in Auvergne (Un pont en Auvergne)
Paul Huet
1834
Medium
etching and roulette on chine applique
Dimensions
plate: 28.8 x 36.8 cm (11 5/16 x 14 1/2 in.) sheet: 44.8 x 62 cm (17 5/8 x 24 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1987.51.1
About the Artist
Paul Huet · 1803–1869
Paul Huet was born in Paris in 1803 and emerged as one of the founding figures of French Romantic landscape painting, a pioneer who helped chart the course from the classical tradition of the previous century toward the freer, more emotionally charged approach to nature that would define the Romantic era. As a young man he studied briefly with Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Antoine-Jean Gros, bu...