Jean-Pierre Houël

French · 1735–1813 · Painter, Printmaker

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël was a French painter, engraver and draftsman. During his long life, Houël witnessed the reign of Louis XV, the French Revolution, and the period… (Wikipedia)

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Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël was a French painter, engraver and draftsman. During his long life, Houël witnessed the reign of Louis XV, the French Revolution, and the period of Napoleon's First Empire.

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Born 1735, RouenDied 1813, ParisOccupation Painter, Printmaker, DraughtsmanWikidata Q2706271 ↗ULAN 500028641 ↗Museum works 16

Also known as éleve de M. Casanova Houel, Houel, Houl, J. Houel, J. P. LL. Houel, Jean-Baptiste Houel, Jean Houel, Jean-Pierre Houel and 5 other name forms

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Jean-Pierre Houël, Visitors with Torches Inside a Circular Building — **Visitors with Torches Inside a Circular Building**ca. 1769 · Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, heightened with touches of white, over traces of black chalk
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Josep…

Jean-Pierre Houël, Landscape — **Landscape**1759 · Etching
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953 — Open Access…

Jean-Pierre Houël, Histoire Naturelle Des Deux Éléphans...du Muséum De Paris — **Histoire Naturelle Des Deux Éléphans...du Muséum De Paris**1803 · Etching and engraving
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha …

Jean-Pierre Houël, Chinoiserie with a woman playing a gong, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. . .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. . .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt), plate 6 — **Chinoiserie with a woman playing a gong, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. . .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. . .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt), plate 6**1755–76 · Etching and engraving
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha …

Jean-Pierre Houël, Voyage Pittoresque des Isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari (vol. 1) — **Voyage Pittoresque des Isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari (vol. 1)**1782 · Bound volume with letter press text and 72 etching and aquatints printed in brown on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington ↗
CC0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection…

Jean-Pierre Houël, Untitled — **Untitled**1777
Department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Department of Prints and Drawings of …

Jean-Pierre Houël, View of the Castle of Chanteloup from the Waterfall — **View of the Castle of Chanteloup from the Waterfall**1785
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours

Jean-Pierre Houël, Farmyard — **Farmyard**1759
Wikimedia Commons ↗
CC0 · Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel after François Boucher, via Wikimedia Commons…

Jean-Pierre Houël, The Storming of the Bastille — **The Storming of the Bastille**1789
Bibliothèque nationale de France ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Bibliothèque nationale de France

Jean-Pierre Houël, View of the Ruins of the Temple of Ceres in the Valley of Agrigento — **View of the Ruins of the Temple of Ceres in the Valley of Agrigento**
Wikimedia Commons ↗
CC0 · Jean-Pierre Houël, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

Jean-Pierre Houël, Landscape with a Walker and a Cascade, plate 5 from the second suite Livre de paysages (Book of Landscapes) — **Landscape with a Walker and a Cascade, plate 5 from the second suite Livre de paysages (Book of Landscapes)**1758 · Etching in black on off-white laid paper
Art Institute of Chicago ↗
CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and…

Jean-Pierre Houël, Figures in a Landscape — **Figures in a Landscape**1763 · Black ink and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin — Open Access (CC0)

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

Works in museum collections

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