L'Ile Séguin in Flood
Paul Huet
1833
Medium
etching in black on chine collé
Dimensions
plate: 28.6 x 37.1 cm (11 1/4 x 14 5/8 in.) sheet: 35 x 44.4 cm (13 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
Accession Number
2004.128.21
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...