Blue and Orange Sky
Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)
1838/40
- Medium
- Pastel on tanned-gray wove paper with blue fibers
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 18.8 × 27.9 cm (7 7/16 × 11 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William McKittrick Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
A preeminent landscape painter of the French Romantic movement, Paul Huet sketched en plein air in Paris and its environs, Normandy, and the Auvergne. His style of landscape painting and drawing greatly influenced members of the Barbizon School and, later, the Impressionists. Pastels such as this are seldom found outside of France.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
