View of Paris, from Meuden

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Paul Huet
French, 1803-1869

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Huet
Title: View of Paris, from Meuden
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Artist's working dates 1823–1869
Medium: Watercolor, with traces of gouache, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 17.9 × 26.5 cm (7 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1973.61
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Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Centenaire du Romantisme,” May 1930, cat. 9.
Nottingham Castle Museum, “Bonnington,” 1965, (reference acc. to Walter Feilchenfeldt).
London, Heim Gallery, “Paintings by Paul Huet and Some Contemporary French Sculpture,” January 16- February 20, 1969, cat. 17 (ill.).
College Park, Md., University of Maryland Art Gallery, “From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the 19th Century,” October 26-December 4, 1977, pp. 140 and 144, cat. 81 (ill.), cat. by Alain de Leiris and Carol Hynning Smith; traveled to Louisville, Ky., J.B. Speed Museum of Art, January 9-February 19, 1978; and Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan Museum of Art, April 1-May 14, 1978.

Estate of the artist, from 1869 [Lugt 1268]; by descent to the artist’s grandson, Maurice Perret Carnot, from at least 1928 (the date Paul Huet’s son, Maurice Perret Carnot’s father died) [a letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt of January 5, 2004 in curatorial file]. Sold by Galerie Pavillon, Paris, to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, 1969 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1973.

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