Flooding in the Forest of the Ile Séguin
Paul Huet
c. 1833
Medium
etching on japan paper
Dimensions
image: 22.1 x 31.4 cm (8 11/16 x 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 39.7 cm (10 15/16 x 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Karen B. Cohen in Honor of Andrew Robison
Accession Number
2005.62.2
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...