Capriccio with Fountain and Frolicking Swans
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and blue and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
Dimensions
30.4 × 19.9 cm (12 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
100819
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...