Jean-Baptiste HUET (Paris, 1745 - 1811) The oath of love Oil on panel, lined and parqueted Signed and dated 'J.B. Huet / 1789' lower right The Oath of Love, oil on panel, signed and dated, by J.-B. Huet 12.20 x 9.44 in. 31 x 24 cm Provenance: Private collection, Paris Jean-Baptiste Huët was born in the Louvre, the son of a painter working in the furniture repository. His training is traditionally attributed in literature1 to Charles Dagomer (circa 1700-1766), then to Jean-Baptiste Leprince (1734-1781). In 1769, he was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, presenting Un dogue se jetant sur des oies, preserved in the Musée du Louvre (inv. 5411; MR 1847), as his reception piece. Strongly influenced by the delicate style of François Boucher (1703-1770), whom he met at the Louvre, Jean-Baptiste Huët extended the sensibility of the 18th century at a time when the neo-classicism of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was rationalising painting. Set against a backdrop of motifs inspired by the taste for antiquity, our panel conveys a gentle atmosphere that lends great charm to this sentimental scene. 1 - Laure Hug, "Recherches sur la biographie du peintre Jean-Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)", in Bulletin de la Société de L'Histoire de l'Art français, 1998, pp. 159-173. Jean-Baptiste HUET (Paris, 1745 - 1811) 31 x 24 cm Jean-Baptiste Huët was born in the Louvre, the son of a painter in the furniture storage room. His training is traditionally attributed in literature1 to Charles Dagomer (circa 1700-1766), then to Jean-Baptiste Leprince (1734-1781). In 1769, he was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, presenting Un dogue se jetant sur des oies, preserved in the Musée du Louvre (inv. 5411; MR 1847), as his reception piece. Strongly influenced by the delicate style of François Boucher (1703-1770), whom he met at the Louvre, Jean-Baptiste Huët extended the sensibility of the 18th century at a time when the neo-classicism of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was rationalising painting. Set against a backdrop of motifs inspired by the taste for antiquity, our panel conveys a gentle atmosphere that lends great charm to this sentimental scene. 1 - Laure Hug, "Recherches sur la biographie du peintre Jean-Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)", in Bulletin de la Société de L'Histoire de l'Art français, 1998, pp. 159-173.