Jean-François Hue (
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
Population
Twin towns
* Freudenberg am Main (1993)
* Terras de Bouro (2004)
See also
*Communes of the Yvelines department
...
, 2 December 1751 to Paris, 26 December 1823) was a French painter, known for marine and landscape paintings.
Biography
Jean-François Hue entered the Académie Royale in 1782, due to his painting ''Vue prise dans la forêt de Fontainebleau''.
Hue was noticed by
Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Life and work
Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet ...
and became the pupil of
Gabriel-François Doyen in Paris. He then joined Vernet's workshop, where he painted ''Quatre vues du château de Mousseaux et de ses jardins'' (undated, 74.8 × 85.8 cm).
In 1791, the Assemblée Constituante requested he finish the series ''Vues des ports de mer de France'' that Vernet had started in 1753 and left unfinished in 1765.
Between 1792 and 1798, he created six paintings depicting the harbors of Bretagne.
Iconography
* ''Entrée de l’Armée française à Gênes (24 juin 1800)'', 1810, Musée national du Château de Versailles
Notes and references
; Notes
; Bibliography
* Pierre-Auguste Miger, ''Les Ports de France peints par Joseph Vernet et Jean-François Hue'', Paris, Lenormand, 1812, 126 p.
* Catalogue des tableaux composant le cabinet de feu M. Hüe,
* Bibliothèque du
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours.
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18th-century French painters
19th-century French painters