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Farmer's Wife (1771); Europe, Asia, Fidelity tearing the Bonds of Love, Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Evening (1773); Shepherd with his Dog (1775), Orléans Museum; Holy Family with Shepherds, Return from Market (1775); Pastoral Trophy, Farmer's Wife feeding Chickens (1777); Hercules and Omphale (1779); View of Ronce Pond at Sèvres, View of Walls and Fortress of Molle, Annunciation to the Shepherds (1787); Washing on Banks of a Pond, View of Oven at Bougival, Herdsman watching his Herd (1800); Bulls in a Stable, Donkey with Chickens (1801); Lion and Lioness with their Young (1802); Landscape with Birds, Rouen Museum; Dog pointing at Partridges, Animals Grazing, Horses and Sheep at Pasture, Nantes Museum; Ram and Two Ewes, Two Dogs killing a Lamb and Chickens, Robillard Collection, Rheims. His son and pupil, Nicolas (born in Paris, 1770, still living in 1827), was commissioned by the government to paint for the Museum of Natural History one hundred and twenty water-colours, to continue the collection begun in 1650 by the Duke of Orléans.—L'Art (1876), vii. 124; Bellier, i. 787; Ch. Blanc, École française; Lejeune, Guide, i. 236; iii. 130.


HUET, PAUL, born in Paris, Oct. 5, 1804, died there, Jan. 9, 1869. Landscape painter, pupil of Paul Guérin, of Gros, and of the École des Beaux Arts. In 1831 he became the founder of a new school of romantic landscape painting, in which he was the precursor of Theodore Rousseau and of Jules Dupré. Frequently visited Italy and Holland. Had many pupils. Medals: 2d class, 1833; 1st class, 1848, 1855, 1867; L. of Honour, 1841. Works: View of La Fère (1827); Storm at Close of Day, Interior of a Park (1831); Entrance of Forest of Compiègne, Guard-House (1833); Views of Eu and of Honfleur (1834); Morning Calm in Forest (1835), Luxembourg Museum; Autumn Evening (1836); Gust of Wind (1838), Avignon Museum; Château of Arques (1840), Orléans Museum; Torrent of Etolie (1841); Castle of Avignon (1843), Avignon Museum; Val d'Enfer, Mare and Foxes (1848); Col de Tende (1849); Private Park of St. Cloud, Children in the Wood, Enchanted Shores (1850); Calm in the Woods (1852); Breakers of Granville (1853), Marshes of Picardy, Inundation of St. Cloud (1855), Louvre; Ford, Thatched Cottage, Betwixt Rain and Sunlight, Pastures (1859); Sunset near Trouville, Equinoctial High Tide near Honfleur (1861); Cliffs of Houlgatt, Bordeaux Museum; do., Lower Meudon (1863); Torrent in the Alps, The Uriage Road (1864); Creek on the Pyrenees Frontier (1865), Montpellier Museum; Park of The Hague at Sunset (1866), Orléans Museum; Fontainebleau, Ruins of Castle of Pierrefonds (1868); Fishermen drawing a Seine on the Shore at Houlgatt (1869); View near Naples, Caen Museum; Toucque Valley, Luxembourg Museum.—L'Art (1878), ii. 15; Bellier, i. 788; Burty, Maitres, 179; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 297; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 741.


HUFFEL, PEETER VAN, born at Grammont, East Flanders, baptized April 17, 1769, died at Ghent, Aug. 12, 1844. History and portrait painter, pupil of Ghent Academy, where he won several prizes; then studied seven years at Mechlin under Herreyns, and in Paris; after his return to Ghent was appointed director of the Academy and conservator of the Museum. Gold medal, Ghent, 1817. Court-painter to Queen Anna Pavlovna of Holland. Works: Holy Virgin in the Temple (1817), Abbey of Dooreseele; Miracle of St. Landvald, St. Bavon's, Ghent; SS Peter and Paul, St. James's, ib.; Resurrection, Museum, ib.; Portrait of Napoleon as Consul, Antwerp Museum; do. of John Quincy Adams (1814).—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 474; Immerzeel, ii. 61; Kramm, iii. 763; vii. 87.


HUGARD DE LATOUR, CLAUDE SÉBASTIEN, born at Cluses (Haute-Savoie),