Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet
French, 1745 - 1811
France, 1745 - 1811
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince and the animal painter Charles Dagomer, Jean-Baptiste-Marie Huet was accepted into the Académie Royale as an animalier in 1769. The following year he made his debut at the Salon, where his paintings of animals, indebted to the example of Jean-Baptiste Oudry, were admired by critics. He had a particular liking for pastoral genre subjects, often with shepherds or herders, in which the influence of François Boucher is evident. He also found inspiration in the work of the Dutch genre painters of the 17th century. In 1794 he was appointed peintre du roi, and in addition produced designs for the Beauvais tapestry factory and for printed textiles at the Manufacture Oberkampf in Jouy-en-Josas. Huet was an extremely accomplished draughtsman, and many of his drawings were published as engravings, usually by the printmaker Gilles Demarteau the Elder. Between 1765 and 1770 Huet painted a series of pastoral landscapes and animal subjects to decorate the interior of Demarteau’s house in Paris, a project to which both Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard also contributed.
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French, born Flemish, 1722-1776
