The Cliffs at Dieppe
Paul Huet
c. 1825
Medium
Watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped on cream laid paper
Dimensions
17.6 × 25.9 cm (6 15/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
31615
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...