JEAN-BAPTISTE HÜET (Paris 1745-1811)

'La leçon de flute'; and 'Le cerf-volant'

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JEAN-BAPTISTE HÜET (Paris 1745-1811)
'La leçon de flute'; and 'Le cerf-volant'
oil on canvas
94 1/8 x 62¼ in. (239 x 158.2 cm.)
a pair (2)

Provenance

Wenker (according to a label on the reverse of the first).
F. Arthur; his sale, 9 September 1880 (according to exhibition catalogue, see below).
Monastery of the Annunciation, Tuxedo Park, New York; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 1982, lot 4, as 'Circle of François Boucher'.
with Maurice Segoura (From Watteau to David, a century of French Art, 21 April-25 June 1982, nos. 21-22).

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Hüet studied with Charles Dagomer before entering the studio of Jean-Baptiste Leprince. He exhibited regularly at the Salon du Louvre from 1769 to 1802 and was employed designing tapestry cartoons for the Manufactories at Aubusson, Beauvais, Gobelins and Joüy. Hüet worked in the style of François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste Oudry, though he brought his own recognizable manner to his many pastoral compositions.

These pastoral scenes may have been executed by Hüet as cartoons for tapestries and most probably were part of a larger series representing Les jeux champêtres manufactured at Aubusson.

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