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Paul Huet

The Poacher

1833

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Paul Huet

The Poacher

1833

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 264 × 356 mm. (10 3/8 × 14 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.7753
The Poacher is one of several landscape etchings that Paul Huet created in the 1830s. It combines the artist’s love of the French countryside with his interest in seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting (including the work of Jacob van Ruisdael, whose oil Landscape with Waterfall hangs nearby). Several differences between the preparatory drawing and the final print demonstrate how Huet experimented with the composition before he etched it. In particular, he seems to have struggled with the poses of the dog and the man, who appear much more alert in the etching. Presumably dissatisfied with what he had first drawn, Huet cut out part of the composition and pasted in another irregularly cut, smaller sheet.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD, "Hommage à Baudelaire," Mar. 6 - Apr. 1, 1968.

The Maryland Arts Council, Sept. 1970 - July 15, 1971.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, May - 10 September 2008.

Inscribed: lower left in plate: "PAUL HUET-1834"

Markings: None

Artist

Paul Huet

1802–1868

French, 1803-1869
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