Marie Huet (born 20 September 1859, in Paris), was a French painter of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

She was born in Paris. She lived in Paris as well as Solesmes and

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. She joined the Society of French Artists in 1887 and regularly exhibited her works. Despite the recommendation sent by the writer

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to the painter and jury member Antonio de La Gandara, she never received a mention. She was associated with the fashion icon Louise Chéruit. In 1898, she took over the fashion house of the Raudnitz sisters, which was soon renamed Huet & Chéruit and would be a real success, crowned by a Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition. They counted among their customers Madame Astor, the princess de Broglie, the Duchesse de Gramont and the queen of Romania. The house Huet and Chéruit, the latter assuming sole artistic direction, was then one of the five big names in haute couture that dominated Paris with Callot Soeurs, Jacques Doucet, Jeanne Lanvin and Charles Worth. She was the model of the American painter Alice Pike Barney.

Gallery

File:Tableau marie huet 2.jpg, Madeleine Mulleur File:Tableau marie huet 1.jpg, Camille Huet File:Marie huet 3.jpg, Madeleine Mulleur File:Jeune fille par Marie Huet.jpg, File:Photo marie huet 3.jpg, Marie Huet File:Jules et Marie Huet 1.jpg, Marie Huet et son père à Thomery

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huet, Marie 1859 births Year of death missing French women painters 19th-century French painters 19th-century French women artists Painters from Paris