Huet (Paul, 1803-1869). Landscape with field workers near the forest of Compiègne, circa 1850, oil on wood panel with bevelled edges to verso including contemporary inscription with ink to verso “Compiègne” and “allongé”, later auction number in white chalk 4049, 26.5 by 33.5 cm (10 1/2 by 13 3/8, gilt frame with beaded inner boarder (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Estate of Michael Jaffé art historian and former director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Paul Huet was a pupil of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Academie des Beaux-Arts and a driving force in the renewal of landscape painting in the early Romantic period. A friend of Richard Parkes Bonnington and of Delacroix. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1827. The contents of his studio were sold in 1878.
Huet (Paul, 1803-1869). Landscape with field workers near the forest of Compiègne, circa 1850, oil on wood panel with bevelled edges to verso including contemporary inscription with ink to verso “Compiègne” and “allongé”, later auction number in white chalk 4049, 26.5 by 33.5 cm (10 1/2 by 13 3/8, gilt frame with beaded inner boarder (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Estate of Michael Jaffé art historian and former director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Paul Huet was a pupil of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin and Antoine-Jean Gros at the Academie des Beaux-Arts and a driving force in the renewal of landscape painting in the early Romantic period. A friend of Richard Parkes Bonnington and of Delacroix. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1827. The contents of his studio were sold in 1878.
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