A Meadow at Sunset

c. 1845

Paul Huet

Associated Names
Paul Huet

Artist, French, 1803 - 1869

This drawing depicts a landscape with a wide green field extending to a line of dark trees on the horizon. The sky above contains shades of blue, pink, orange, and cream, with a yellow sun setting or rising above the trees. The sun casts a wide yellow strip on the green grass below. The lines of the drawing are rough and textured.

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Provenance

The artist's atelier sale (Lugt 1268). (Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Paris); Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, Little Rock, 2003; purchased 2013 by NGA.

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Exhibition History

2012

  • De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny. Washington, 2012, 33, 158, no. 8 (color).

2013

  • Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2013, 33, 158, no. 8 (color)(cat. published in 2012).

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Wikidata ID

Q64619042

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