Sur la route de Nice
Paul Huet
c. 1844
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.1 × 102.9 cm (28 × 40 1/2 in.); Framed: 87 × 119.4 × 7.7 cm (34 1/4 × 47 × 3 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
250454
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...