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Lot Essay
Huet was the son of a court painter in the king's household who spent his childhood among the artists lodged in the Louvre; it was there that as a young man he would have first met François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, the talented pupil of Boucher who became his master in 1764. Something of a prodigy, Huet was accepted into the Academy in July 1768 and was elected to full membership the following year as a painter of genre scenes.
Eligible to exhibit at the Salon for the first time in the summer of 1769, he organized an impressive debut of about fifteen works, including his reception piece and other animal paintings. At the Salon of 1781 Huet exhibited several oil paintings, gouaches and drawings, including a large gouache that can probably be identified with the present work. In this extensive landscape Huet arranged an abundance of standing, seated, moving and stationary figures and a variety of animals into a harmonious symphony of bright colors.
Eligible to exhibit at the Salon for the first time in the summer of 1769, he organized an impressive debut of about fifteen works, including his reception piece and other animal paintings. At the Salon of 1781 Huet exhibited several oil paintings, gouaches and drawings, including a large gouache that can probably be identified with the present work. In this extensive landscape Huet arranged an abundance of standing, seated, moving and stationary figures and a variety of animals into a harmonious symphony of bright colors.