JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET

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Jean-Baptiste
Huet, who spent the majority of his career in Paris, was first trained in his
family environment. He then received instruction from the animal painter
Charles Dagomer and encouragement from Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, a talented
student of Boucher. Benefitting from these influences, Huet developed a
naturalistic and graceful style. He excelled in works of pastoral scenery
depicting tales of the tender romances of shepherds, painted rustic landscapes
with poetic notes and depicted the animal world with frankness and sympathy. He
was admitted to the Académie in 1769, had regular exhibitions at the Paris
Salon and was entrusted with decorative cycles. Huet’s art met with great
success in various mediums. In 1783, Oberkampf, founder of the royal
manufacture of Jouy-en-Josas, requested his services in creating printed
patterns. His early creations were light, still in the Rococo style, then later
gave way to straighter and more orderly shapes in the wake of Neoclassicism.
Even up to his very last expressions, the Huet’s work constitutes a tremendous
tribute to the beauty of nature, with aspects of both reverie and fascination.#expoHuet        CURATOR: Benjamin Couilleaux, Curator of
Cultural Heritage at the Cognacq-Jay Museum