View of the Château at Folembray
Paul Huet
ca. 1831
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 1/2 in. (17.5 × 26.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2013
Accession Number
2013.1121.5
Tags
BuildingsLandscapesTrees
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...