Gezicht te Honfleur
Paul Huet
1861 - 1866
Medium
brush
Dimensions
110; 137
About this artwork
Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
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...