Mountains of Auvergne
Paul Huet
1831–33
Medium
Watercolor with pen and brown ink
Dimensions
6 5/16 x 11 1/4 in. (16 x 28.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Christie's and Wildenstein Gifts, 1996
Accession Number
1996.156
Tags
MountainsLandscapes
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...