{{short description|French painter}} thumb|Paul Huet
'''Paul Huet''' ({{IPA|fr|pɔl ɥɛ}}; 3 October 1803 – 8 January 1869) was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He studied under Gros and Guerin.<ref>Clay, J. (1973). ''Impressionism''. Paris: Hachette Réalités. p. 45. {{ISBN|2010066235}}</ref> He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington in the studio of Gros, where he studied irregularly from 1819 to 1822.<ref name="Noon107">Noon, Patrick J., and Stephen Bann (2003). ''Crossing the Channel: British and French painting in the age of Romanticism''. London: Tate Pub. p. 107. {{ISBN|185437513X}}</ref> Bonington's example influenced Huet to reject neoclassicism and instead paint landscapes based on close observation of nature.<ref name="Getty">{{Cite web|url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103M2S|title=Paul Huet (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)|website=The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection|accessdate=Mar 26, 2023}}</ref> The British landscape paintings exhibited in the Salon of 1824 were a revelation to Huet, who said of Constable's work: "It was the first time perhaps that one felt the freshness, that one saw a luxuriant, verdant nature, without blackness, crudity or mannerism."<ref>Noon, Patrick J., and Stephen Bann (2003). ''Crossing the Channel: British and French painting in the age of Romanticism''. London: Tate Pub. p. 196. {{ISBN|185437513X}}</ref> Huet's subsequent work combined emulation of the English style with inspiration derived from Dutch and Flemish old masters such as Rubens, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Meindert Hobbema.<ref>Noon, Patrick J., and Stephen Bann (2003). ''Crossing the Channel: British and French painting in the age of Romanticism''. London: Tate Pub. pp. 107, 205. {{ISBN|185437513X}}</ref>
He exhibited in the Salon for the first time at the Salon of 1827, when one of the eight paintings he submitted was accepted by the jury.<ref name="Noon107" /> Afterwards he showed at the Salon regularly, and won the support of many important critics. Among his champions was Eugène Delacroix, whom Huet had met In November 1822.<ref name="Noon107" /> Less enthusiastic was Étienne-Jean Delécluze, who criticized Huet as "the painter who has been the most faithful to the principles of Constable, Turner, Daniell and by extension Watteau ... he totally neglects design."<ref name="Noon107" />
Huet participated in the July Revolution of 1830, and was involved in republican politics for a period afterwards.<ref Name="Murray527" /> He was awarded a pair of Sèvres porcelain vases from King Louis-Philippe in 1844.<ref>[http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-pair-of-sevres-porcelain-vases-5571442-details.aspx Sévres vases] sold at Christie's in New York on 7 June 2012</ref> He was awarded a gold medal at the Salon of 1848.<ref Name="Murray527" /> He exhibited in the Exposition Universelle of 1855, where he was awarded a medal, and also exhibited in the International Exposition of 1867.<ref Name="Murray527" />
Huet's works, which include oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs, are Romantic in feeling.<ref Name="Murray527">Murray, C. J. (2004). ''Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850''. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 527. {{ISBN|157958361X}}</ref> He was unusual among French landscape painters in his use of watercolor for sketching as well as for finished works, which were often so richly developed that they resemble oil paintings.<ref>Noon, Patrick J., and Stephen Bann (2003). ''Crossing the Channel: British and French painting in the age of Romanticism''. London: Tate Pub. pp. 241, 264. {{ISBN|185437513X}}</ref> The vividness with which he depicted natural forms influenced the painters of the Barbizon School and later the Impressionists.<ref name="Getty" />
Huet died in Paris on 8 January 1869 and is buried at Cimetière du Montparnasse.
==Selected works==
* ''The Flood of Saint-Cloud'' * ''Normandy Thatched Cottage, Old Trouville'' <br> <gallery> File:Huet Paul, vue des falaises de Houlgate.jpg|''Vue des falaises de Houlgatte'' File:Brooklyn Museum - Fontaine de Vaucluse - Paul Huet.jpg|Paul Huet, ''Fontaine de Vaucluse'', ca. 1839, watercolor, 28.9 × 44.5 cm. Brooklyn Museum </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline}}
* [http://www.jillnewhouse.com/artists/paul-huet?view=slider#2 Paul Huet] artist biography from Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York {{Authority control (arts)}}
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