Jean-François Hue

French painter

Jean-François Hue


Born	2 December 1751 Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines
Died	24 December 1823 (aged 72) former 5th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation	Painter

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

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

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

Paintings of battles

The Battle of Grenada, Paris, Musée national de la Marine.
The Chouans setting fire to Granville, 1800, Historial de la Vendée (Les Lucs sur Boulogne)
Hue's depiction of the action of 14 December 1798

Series on the harbours of France

Vue de la rade de Brest, prise au bas de la batterie du château (par Jean-François Hue [1751–1823], Paris, Sénat – palais du Luxembourg)
Brest : vue de l'intérieur du port de Brest prise de la cale ouverte (par Jean-François Hue [1751–1823], Paris, Sénat – palais du Luxembourg)
Jean-François Hue Port de Brest 1793
Jean-François Hue Port de Brest 1793

Notes and references

Notes

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.