Woodland Stream

Paul Huet

c. 1840

Woodland Stream by Paul Huet

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 24.8 x 33.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.) framed: 39.1 x 48.9 x 3.5 cm (15 3/8 x 19 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Accession Number

2004.166.23

About the Artist

Paul Huet · 18031869

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...

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