“Birds and Squirrels” Furnishing Fabric
Medium
Cotton; roller printed
Dimensions
296.5 × 236.2 cm (116 3/4 × 93 in.)
Classification
printed textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
256788
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...