Blue and Orange Sky

Blue and Orange Sky

Paul HuetWW-1838-049920
1838·Pastel on tanned-gray wove paper with blue fibers·18.8 × 27.9 cm (7 7/16 × 11 in.)

<p>A preeminent landscape painter of the French Romantic movement, Paul Huet sketched en plein air in Paris and<br>its environs, Normandy, and the Auvergne. His style of landscape painting and drawing greatly influenced members of the Barbizon School and, later, the Impressionists. Pastels such as this are seldom found outside of France.</p>

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Year
1838
Dimensions
18.8 × 27.9 cm (7 7/16 × 11 in.)
Artist
Paul Huet

Artist

Paul Huet
Paul Huet

Painting

Paul Huet was a French landscape painter and a founding figure of the Barbizon School, the mid-nineteenth-century movement that shifted painting practice from studio convention toward direct observation of nature. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he depicted forests, wetlands, and rural weather with atmospheric sensitivity and a palette weighted toward greens and grays. His work bridged Romantic sensibility and naturalist method, influencing the trajectory of French landscape painting toward Impressionism.

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Artist
Paul Huet
Year
1838
Dimensions
18.8 × 27.9 cm (7 7/16 × 11 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1838-049920

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Paul Huet

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