Jean-Baptiste Huet

Painter and engraver, Jean-Baptiste Huet trained with his father, Nicolas Huet, then became an apprentice with the animal painter Charles Dagomer. Although he joined the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince in 1764, Huet was more inspired by the compositions of François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste Oudry to develop his favorite subjects: pastorals and animal studies. In 1768, he was approved at the Royal Academy with his painting Dog Attacking Geese (Louvre Museum), and in 1769, he was received as an academician with Fox in the Henhouse (San Francisco, Legion of Honor). He also exhibited for the first time that year at the Salon. Jean-Baptist Huet was very successful. His animal paintings, pastorals and genre scenes were widely admired and engraved. Many of his drawings were also reproduced in aquatint and engraving by Demarteau, Lebas and Bonnet.