Jean-baptiste Huet I. 1745-1811 River Landscape With Figures Oil On Canvas

Jean-Baptiste Huet I. 1745-1811 River landscape with figures Oil on canvas 69 cm x 91 cm or 79.5 cm x 107 cm Jean-Baptiste Huet came from a family of Parisian artists. His father was the painter Nicolas Huet (also Nicolas Huet the elder, * 1718; † after 1788), who had studied painting with Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Jean-Baptiste Huet first received his training in his father's studio. Later, he was taught by the painter Charles Dagomer, who was related to the Huet family. From 1766, Jean Baptiste Leprince was his teacher. Through him, Huet met François Boucher, with whom he became friends. Pierre Paul Prud'hon was also one of his friends. From 1769, Huet was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1769 he married Marie-Geneviève Chevalier, daughter of the painter Jean-François Chevalier. The couple lived in an apartment in the Louvre from 1770. Huet received several commissions for the decoration of the royal chambers at the Palace of Versailles. Until the French Revolution, Huet was a successful artist and painted mainly landscapes and pastoral scenes based on Boucher's model or representations of animals in the style of Oudry. Inv. No. 2,031 €4,350