Jean-François Hue

Training under Gabriel François Doyen, Joseph Vernet and Louis-Philippe Crépin is recorded. Nicolas Joseph Vergnaux is recorded as having studied under Jean-François Hue. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Versailles and Rome. Work by Jean-François Hue is recorded in the collections of Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Brieuc, Detroit Institute of Arts, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau and Château de Compiègne.

Jean-François Hue was born in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines. He entered the Académie Royale in 1782, on the strength of 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 Views of the Ports of France that Vernet had started in 1753 and left unfinished in 1765. Between 1792 and 1798, Hue created six paintings depicting the harbours of Brittany. His 1794 painting View of the Port of Brest was exhibited at the Salon of 1795 at the Louvre. He died in Paris in 1823.