Orage à la Fin du jour
Paul Huet
1868
Medium
etching with drypoint on chine collé
Dimensions
plate: 20 x 27.6 cm (7 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 44.9 x 63.4 cm (17 11/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Thomas F. Hancock Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2002.137.2
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...