# Blue and Orange Sky

- By: Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William McKittrick Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159360)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b53b6cc8-6783-b41c-aa82-4fda3e2307e7/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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