The Tower of Mont-Perrou, Seen from the Banks of the Allier (Auvergne)
1831
Medium
Lithograph in black on buff China paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23 × 30.5 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Primary support: 28.6 × 33 cm (11 5/16 × 13 in.); Secondary support: 33.2 × 45.4 cm (13 1/8 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9552
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...