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Undoubtedly supplied through the intervention of a marchand-mercier, this table en chiffonnire's painted compositions are closely related to Christophe Huet's whimsical interpretation of rococo chinoiserie, a style elaborated with great talent by Antoine Watteau in the 1720s and popularized through a series of engraved plates. Taking Watteau's refined and sensous vision of the Orient and fusing it with singeries, Huet developed an idiosyncratic style which embraced all media, including marquetry and painted furniture. While the use of monkeys can be traced to the works of Jean Brain and Claude Audran, Huet's amusing and fanciful compositions inhabited with simians dressed as humans clearly captured the joyful and refined spirit of the ftes galantes so well depicted by Watteau.
Huet was responsible for the elaboration of several interior schemes portraying fashionably-dressed simians engaged in fanciful activities, an oeuvre well represented by a nearly identical panel in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris (illustrated below). The grande and petite singerie panelled rooms painted at Chantilly for the Prince de Cond in the 1730s, and the ones later executed at the Htel de Rohan in Paris and for Madame de Pompadour's chteau de Champ constitute a particularly representative and delightful ensemble of Huet's genre.
A closely related oil on canvas by Huet of a monkey playing the violin was sold anonymously at Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 30-31 January 1991, lot 119, whilst a preparatory study on paper for the Salon des Singes located on the first floor of the Htel de Rohan, painted by Huet circa 1750 and depicting a couple blowing soap bubbles, was also sold in the same sale, lot 263.
Huet was responsible for the elaboration of several interior schemes portraying fashionably-dressed simians engaged in fanciful activities, an oeuvre well represented by a nearly identical panel in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris (illustrated below). The grande and petite singerie panelled rooms painted at Chantilly for the Prince de Cond in the 1730s, and the ones later executed at the Htel de Rohan in Paris and for Madame de Pompadour's chteau de Champ constitute a particularly representative and delightful ensemble of Huet's genre.
A closely related oil on canvas by Huet of a monkey playing the violin was sold anonymously at Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 30-31 January 1991, lot 119, whilst a preparatory study on paper for the Salon des Singes located on the first floor of the Htel de Rohan, painted by Huet circa 1750 and depicting a couple blowing soap bubbles, was also sold in the same sale, lot 263.