Women Bathing
Paul Huet
1867
Medium
Etching on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 15.4 × 22.9 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.7 × 48.2 cm (12 1/8 × 19 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44402
About the Artist
Paul Huet · 1803–1869
Paul Huet was born in Paris in 1803 and emerged as one of the founding figures of French Romantic landscape painting, a pioneer who helped chart the course from the classical tradition of the previous century toward the freer, more emotionally charged approach to nature that would define the Romantic era. As a young man he studied briefly with Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Antoine-Jean Gros, bu...