Orage à la Fin du jour

Art Historical Context

"Orage à la Fin du jour" (Storm at the End of the Day), created by Paul Huet in 1868, presents a dramatic landscape charged with the energy of approaching weather. The title suggests a scene unfolding at dusk, where light and shadow play across the sky and land. As a print in the National Gallery of Art’s collection, it offers visitors a glimpse into 19th-century French interest in nature’s moods and the changing atmosphere of the day. Huet produced this work using etching with drypoint on chine collé, a refined technique that combines incised lines with the soft burr of drypoint for rich ton...

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...