Jean-Baptiste Huet

Description

Paul Huet studied in the workshop of Antoine-Jean Gros in the École des Beaux-Arts. Huet soon began to practice outdoor painting around Paris and in the countryside. He was especially influenced by English landscape painters, notably Constable, whom he met at the Salon of 1824. Huet’s manner of sublimating the changing atmospheres of nature made him a leading figure of romantic landscapes. In the present drawing, he employs watercolor, which is particularly suited to the expression of diffused light and humidity. The date of 1862, according to the inscription on the verso, corresponds to Huet’s stays around the English Channel and in Normandy, a region he loved, in the 1850s and 60s.