Paul Huet

Paul Huet ( born October 3, 1803 in Paris, † January 9, 1869 ) was a French painter, draftsman and etcher.

Since 1820 he was a student at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris, first under Antoine -Jean Gros, then under Pierre Narcisse Guérin, he concluded in his studio with Eugène Delacroix friendship. At the same time he trained in the studio of the Académie Suisse ( 1822). By means of the study of nature he founded in France the poetic mood landscape in contrast to the classical direction, which is why he took his motives almost only France and Holland.

He worked mostly in the area of Saint-Cloud, but also made study trips to Normandy, Brittany, and to England, Belgium, Holland and Italy ( 1840).

From its coloristically exceedingly charming landscapes are:

• A thunderstorm in the evening ( 1831)
• Autumn Evening (1838 )
• Sunset in autumn mist
• The flood of Saint-Cloud/Inondation de Saint-Cloud (1855, major work )
• Great Flood at Honfleur
• The Black Rock (1861 )
• Shores of Houlgatt (1863 )
• Evening in the Alps ( 1864)
• The flooding of the Gave (1865 )
• The grove in the Hague / Bois de la Haye (1866 )

He also has decorative painting ( Life in Normandy, in eight pictures ), lithographs, etchings ( Main Sheet: The sources of Royat ) executed and illustrations to Paul and Virginia and the Indian hut very fine and atmospheric.

Huet is the father of the painter René Paul Huet (* 1844).