Au Loup! (Furnishing Fabric)
1783/89
Medium
Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
Dimensions
93 × 136 cm (36 5/8 × 53 1/2 in.)
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60689
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of 18th-century French interiors with *Au Loup! (Furnishing Fabric)*, vibrant cotton panel designed by Jean Baptiste Hu between 1783 and 1789. Huet, a master of Rococo style with its playful pastoral scenes, crafted this piece for luxurious home furnishings. Measuring 93 × 136 cm, it's a prime example of printed textiles from the Art Institute of Chicago's Textiles, evoking the charm of rural French life just before the Revolution. Printed using innovative copperplate techniques on plain-weave cotton, *Au Loup!*—translating to "To the Wolf!"—showcases Huet's signat...
About the Artist
Jean Baptiste Huet · 1745–1811
Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (1745–1811) was born into a family of artists in Paris on October 15, 1745. The son of animal painter Nicolas Huet the Elder, with whom he first trained, Huet was also the nephew of the renowned sculptor and decorator Christophe Huet. He apprenticed under animal painter Charles Dagomer, a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc, during the 1760s, honing his skills in depicting...