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Lot Essay
This drawing, which is signed and dated by Hüet, is copied from a prototype by François Boucher in the collection of the Comte d'Orsay (Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. Ors. 468; illustrated by A. Laing in the catalogue of the exhibition, François Boucher, Paris/Detroit/New York, 1986-87, p. 122, under cat. no. 13, fig. 94). Another version of the composition by Boucher, now lost, was in the de Sireul collection (sold, Paris, 3 December 1781, lot 92); it was engraved after 1781 (P. Jean-Richard, L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild au Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1978, no. 1645). A painted version of the subject by N-R Jollain is known (sold, Monte Carlo, Sotheby's, 16 June 1990, lot 473).
Hüet often copied Boucher's compositions, although he always did so in his own, easily identifiable idiom. Another example of Hüet's direct copies from Boucher is the drawing of Pomona in a private collection (signed and date 1782; see A. Wintermute and G. S. Sainty, François Boucher: His Circle and Influence, 1987, cat. no. 70, illustrated).
Hüet often copied Boucher's compositions, although he always did so in his own, easily identifiable idiom. Another example of Hüet's direct copies from Boucher is the drawing of Pomona in a private collection (signed and date 1782; see A. Wintermute and G. S. Sainty, François Boucher: His Circle and Influence, 1987, cat. no. 70, illustrated).