18th century french school, attributed to Jean Baptiste HUET

Jean Baptiste HUET (attributed) (Paris 15 October 1745 - 27 January 1811).

J.B. HUET was a French artist of the second half of the 18th century. HUET was a painter, printmaker and designer of pastoral and genre scenes influenced by the great French painter Francois BOUCHER (1703-1770). HUET was born in Paris in 1745 into a family of artists. His grandfather Christophe and his father Nicholas were both painters. HUET was an apprentice in the workshop of Charles DAGOMER, an animal painter, and later in the studio of Jean Baptiste LE PRINCE, a favorite pupil of BOUCHER. In 1769 he was accepted into the ROYAL ACCADEMY. He died in Paris in 1811. Dimensions: 48x63 cm.