An Abbey by a Wooded Lake at Twilight
Paul Huet
c. 1831
Medium
pastel on blue wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23 x 37.5 cm (9 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Helen Porter and James T. Dyke Fund
Accession Number
2011.44.1
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...