Near Fontainebleau
Paul Huet
1866
Medium
Etching on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 19.4 × 27.7 cm (7 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 32.3 × 45.1 cm (12 3/4 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22907
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...