Galerie Paul Prouté

Paul Huet was born in Paris in 1803 into a family of drapers from Normandy. Initially introduced to drawing by Jean-Julien Deltil, a pupil of David, the young painter continued his training in the studios of Pierre Narcisse Guérin and Antoine-Jean Gros between 1818 and 1820.
Freed from this academic training, Paul Huet soon developed a passion for landscape painting, a genre in which he is considered to be one of the leading restorers at the dawn of Romanticism. In the early 1820s, Paul Huet had a decisive encounter with Bonington and Delacroix, with whom he became friends. He took part in his first Salon in 1827 and was awarded a medal for the first time in 1833.
Paul Huet devoted himself to plein air painting from an early age, and travelled all over France throughout his career, recording in his notebooks mainly landscapes of Normandy and Brittany, which he had travelled extensively, but also views of Italy taken during a trip around 1841-1842.