Jean Huber became known throughout Europe from the 1760s onwards for his numerous images of Voltaire, earning him the nickname “Huber-Voltaire”. He depicted Voltaire in oil and in print, but above all in cut-paper silhouettes. Around 1768, Catherine II of Russia commissioned him to create a cycle devoted to Voltaire’s domestic life in Ferney.
Towards the end of his life, Huber studied horses and birds of prey in particular; the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland presents him as an important figure in the emerging Geneva school and as a pioneer of pastoral painting.
Jean Huber
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