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拍品專文
One of two drawings mentioned by Marquis de Chennevires in the description of his collection in a series of articles published in L'Artiste, 'J'avais tant couv des yeux, chez M. Chanlaire, le collectioneur de Versailles, deux grands et si attrayants dessins, - signs: C. Hutin pinxit, del. 1769, et executs au crayon noir, rehauss de rouge et de blanc, sur papier bleutre, - que l'excellent homme s'en voulut bien dpartir par change, et ils sont, depuis lors, le type accompli chez moi d'oeuvre d'artiste franais l'tranger. L'un reprsente une jeune femme saxonne debout et tourne gauche devant la cuve o fume une lessive - l'autre reprsente un paysan saxon tranant une brouette. Ce sont deux grandes pages, trs termines, avec une finesse de travail que professaient nos sculpteurs franais depuis Bouchardon'. The reference to Bouchardon is understandable since Hutin, who had trained with Le Moyne as a painter, became a sculptor in Rome.
Upon his return to Paris in 1746, he was elected to the Academie as a sculptor before being invited to Dresden by the Elector of Saxony. Drawing was regarded by these sculptors as an important excerise. To draw servants in their daily occupations was a genre inherited from the Italian tradition which they practiced to test their virtuosity. The sharpness and precision of the line was essential in such drawings which were frequently meant to be engraved.
Another French artist, Jacques Franois-Joseph-Saly, who went to Rome to become a sculptor and, just like Hutin, enjoyed a career abroad, excelled in that genre. A drawing by him was sold in these Rooms, 15 December 1992, lot 102.
The pendant to the present drawing, depicting a saxon girl, was sold in Paris, 8 December 1908, lot 72. A painting of a similar subject, showing a Saxon Girl knitting, was sold in Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 5 December 1955, lot 28, and a Saxon Girl with a Basket was exhibited at the Old Masters Galleries, London, June 1967, a Saxon Girl standing in front of an Oven is in Nuremberg (photograph at the Witt Library).
Upon his return to Paris in 1746, he was elected to the Academie as a sculptor before being invited to Dresden by the Elector of Saxony. Drawing was regarded by these sculptors as an important excerise. To draw servants in their daily occupations was a genre inherited from the Italian tradition which they practiced to test their virtuosity. The sharpness and precision of the line was essential in such drawings which were frequently meant to be engraved.
Another French artist, Jacques Franois-Joseph-Saly, who went to Rome to become a sculptor and, just like Hutin, enjoyed a career abroad, excelled in that genre. A drawing by him was sold in these Rooms, 15 December 1992, lot 102.
The pendant to the present drawing, depicting a saxon girl, was sold in Paris, 8 December 1908, lot 72. A painting of a similar subject, showing a Saxon Girl knitting, was sold in Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 5 December 1955, lot 28, and a Saxon Girl with a Basket was exhibited at the Old Masters Galleries, London, June 1967, a Saxon Girl standing in front of an Oven is in Nuremberg (photograph at the Witt Library).