Les Monuments d'Egypte (The Monuments of Egypt) (Furnishing Fabric)
Jean Baptiste Huet
c. 1800
Medium
Cotton, plain weave; engraved roller and block printed
Dimensions
249.9 × 95.6 cm (98 3/8 × 37 5/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 51.2 cm (20 1/8 in.)
Classification
weaving - printed
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50496
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...