Paul Huet* (French, 1803-1869)

Details

Paul Huet* (French, 1803-1869)

Sur la Route de Nice

signed 'Paul Huet' lower left--oil on canvas
28 x 40¾in. (71.2 x 103.5cm.)

Exhibited

Munich, Konrad O. Bernheimer, Barbizon, 1993, (listed and illustrated in catalogue of exhibition pp. 104-105)

Lot Essay

Sur la route de Nice was most likely painted in 1844 - a happy year for Huet as his son, Réné-Paul was born. The classical elements in our painting reveal the influence of Huet's trips to Italy in 1841 and 1842.