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Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 1745 - Paris, 1811) was a French painter, printmaker and designer who created pastoral and genre scenes in the Rococo style, influenced by François Boucher.
Born into a family of artists, he was apprenticed to the animal painter Charles Dagomer, a member of the painters' guild, the Academy of Saint-Luc in Paris.
Around 1764 Huet entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, where he further developed his printing skills, largely reproducing his own pictorial works.
In 1768 he joined the Royal Academy and on 29 July 1769 he was accepted into the minor category of animal painter and received a good reception in public reviews when he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon that same year.
Huet is equally known for the decorative arts. He created sets using the intaglio technique at the toiles de Jouy factory directed by Oberkampf. Read the full biography

Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 1745 - Paris, 1811) was a French painter, printmaker and designer who created pastoral and genre scenes in the Rococo style, influenced by François Boucher.
Born into a family of artists, he was apprenticed to the animal painter Charles Dagomer, a member of the painters' guild, the Academy of Saint-Luc in Paris.
Around 1764 Huet entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, where he further developed his printing skills, largely reproducing his own pictorial works.
In 1768 he joined the Royal Academy and on 29 July 1769 he was accepted into the minor category of animal painter and received a good reception in public reviews when he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon that same year.
Huet is equally known for the decorative arts. He created sets using the intaglio technique at the toiles de Jouy factory directed by Oberkampf. Some of these can be seen at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many other institutions.
In the 1880s he created some cartoons for tapestry works for the Beauvais manufactory. A series of thirteen pastoral tapestries was in Isaac de Camondo's collection bequeathed to the Louvre.