HUET, PAUL (1804-1869), French landscape painter, was born in Paris on Oct. 3, 1804. He forms a link between Georges Michel and Theodore Rousseau as one of the initiators of the "paysage intime" movement in France. His fiery, romantic tem perament led him to endow trees and natural objects with the emotions which he himself experienced, and his paintings of Na ture in her stormy aspects though admirably composed are apt to be over-dramatic in treatment. He died on Jan. 29, 1869.
See Muther, Hist. of Modern Painting, II. xxiv. ; Ernest Chesneau, Peintres et statuaires romantiques (188o) ; Leon Mancino, Un precur seur (L'Art, 1883, i. 49) ; Paul Huet d'apres ses ecnts, sa correspond ance, ses contemporains, documents receullis par son fill, M. Rene Paul Huet (igii).