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Attributed Paul Huet
Signed Barbizon Oil Painting
Att. Paul Huet (1803-1869)
Bonham's Provenance
Currently, I am having my
"Major Autumn European Paintings & a Sculpture Sale."
All of the artwork was done by various deceased artists.
Many of them are very famous and well documented.
This painting was originally purchased from Bonhams and Butterfields (San Francisco, California) and is 100% guaranteed, as described. Please note that t is a glare from the varnish on 2 of the digital images. This glare may look like damage, but it is not damage (1st and 3rd images, right column). Wow! Don't adjust your screens! This painting is a powerhouse. Impeccably competent brushwork, a strong composition and an intense color palette ... all point to the French master - Paul Huet . Please note that the digital images of the painting were taken in the sunlight. Like most paintings, it appears darker in less lit areas.
Personally, I believe this painting is evidence that Paul Huet was actually one of the forefathers of The Barbizon School . Just to share with you a brief biography about this important school of art, I have included an insert from " Wikipedia ":
REFERENCES:

"The Barbizon school (circa 1830–1870) of painters is named after the village of Barbizon near Fontainebleau Forest , France , w the artists gatd.

The Barbizon painters were part of a movement towards realism in art which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

In 1824 the Salon de Paris exhibited works of John Constable . His rural scenes influenced some of the younger artists of the time, moving them to abandon formalism and to draw inspiration directly from nature. Natural scenes became the subjects of their paintings rather than mere backdrops to dramatic events.

During the Revolutions of 1848 artists gatd at Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings.

One of them, Jean-François Millet , extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In The Gleaners (1857), Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. T is no drama and no story told, merely three peasant women in a field.

The leaders of the Barbizon school were Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Théodore Rousseau , Jean-François Millet and Charles-François Daubigny ; other members included Jules Dupré , Constant Troyon , Charles Jacque , Narcisse Virgilio Diaz , Charles Olivier de Penne , Henri Harpignies , Gabriel Hippolyte LeBas (1812-1880), Albert Charpin , Félix Ziem , Anton Mauve , François-Louis Français and Alexandre DeFaux .

Both Rousseau (1867) and Millet (1875) died at Barbizon."

My feeling about Huet's influence on the Barbizon School is not a new revelation. Sorry...the cat is not breaking any new ground. The Getty Museum at: /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=27556

amongst many other sources, have written biographies about Huet's influence on impressionism and The Barbizon School.
If you are unfamiliar with Paul Huet , I would like to share his biography from "Art Encyclopedia," with you:
"( b Paris, 3 Oct 1803; d Paris, 9 Jan 1869). French painter, draughtsman and printmaker. From an early age he painted en plein air , especially in Paris and its environs, in the Parc Saint-Cloud. In 1818 he studied briefly in the studio of Pierre Gu?rin and from 1819 to 1822 he was tutored by Antoine-Jean Gros . In 1820 he also attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in 1822 he painted the nude figure at the Acadamie Suisse. Although his first works show the influence of Antoine Watteau and Jean-Honore Fragonard (e.g. Elms at Saint-Cloud , 1823; Paris, Petit Pal.), the major influence was to be that of the English landscape painters, especially after his meeting in 1820 with Richard Parkes Bonington . They became close friends and often painted together in Normandy, and it is sometimes difficult to ...

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