Huguet travelled to Egypt from 1852 on, and in 1853, he accompanied the marine painter J.B.H. Durand-Brager to the Crimea. Making his debut at the Marseilles and Paris Salons in 1859, he was a regular exhibitor at the Artistes Francais with such paintings as Halte de bicharis dans le désert de Libye (Bisharin Camp in the Libyan Desert), 1861, Halte sur les murs a Constantine (Camp on the Walls of Constantine), 1865 and Dans les douars du Sud de l'Algérie (In the Douars of Southern Algeria), 1877. He showed three pictures, one of which belonged to the art dealer Durand-Ruel, at the first Salon of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Franqais, which was organised at the same time as an exhibition of Muslim art at the Palais de I'lndustrie in Paris in 1893. He continued to send works to this annual Salon during the 1890s.

Huguet's pictures were generally set in Algeria, Libya, Egypt, or, occasionally, Constantinople. He excelled in painting horses, and his pictures of encampments and falcon hunts, or of horsemen watering their mounts, crossing wadis or standing at entrances to great gateways were early on appreciated by collectors. Although his work is practically never dated, his technique over the years became more Impressionistic and his colours lighter and richer, with harmonies of ochres, pinks, reds and blues. Huguet's paintings are found in such museums as that of Nimes: Un marchand d'esclaves traversant le désert de Suez (A Slave Trader crossing the Suez Desert), Rouen: Ruines d'aqueduc romain, environs de Cherchell (Ruins of a Roman Aquaduct near Cherchell), Montpellier: Halte d'Arabes en Afrique (Arab Encampment in Africa), Aix: Cavaliers algériens (Algerian Horsemen) and Marseilles: Le Minaret (The Minaret) and Caravane (Caravan).