Flooding in the Forest of the Ile Séguin
Paul Huet
c. 1833
Medium
pen and iron gall ink over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 20.2 x 41.1 cm (7 15/16 x 16 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Karen B. Cohen in Honor of Andrew Robison
Accession Number
2005.62.3
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...