Woodland Stream
Paul Huet
c. 1840
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 · 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...