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Jean-François Hue

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Jean-François Hue
Born2 December 1751 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines Edit this on Wikidata
Died24 December 1823 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 72)
former 5th arrondissement of Paris Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPainter Edit this on Wikidata

Jean-François Hue (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 2 December 1751 to Paris, 26 December 1823) was a French painter, known for marine and landscape paintings.

Biography

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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 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

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  • Entrée de l’Armée française à Gênes (24 juin 1800), 1810, Musée national du Château de Versailles

Notes and references

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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, available at Gallica
  • Bibliothèque du Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours.