Entrance to the Forest
Paul Huet
c. 1846
Medium
etching on chine collé [proof]
Dimensions
plate: 28.5 x 35700 cm (11 1/4 x 14055 1/16 in.) sheet: 29.2 x 42.4 cm (11 1/2 x 16 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2007.127.1
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...