Rock Cliffs along the Romanche
Paul Huet
1858
Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 30.3 x 48.4 cm (11 15/16 x 19 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
Accession Number
2001.80.1
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...