Soleil couchant à Seine Port

细节

Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)
Soleil couchant à Seine Port
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'a r. Salisse (?)/Souvenir Bien(?) affectueux Huet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15¼ x 26½ in. (38.8 x 67.3 cm.)

来源

Pierre Carnot, Paris.
Heim Gayrac Collection.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25 May 1995, lot 183, when acquired by the present owner ($9,200).

展览

Munich, Konrad Bernheimer, Barbizon: 19th century paintings from a European private collection, 1993.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

荣誉呈献

Miriam Winson-Alio

mwinson-alio@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2432

拍品专文

The present work is a preliminary sketch for Huet's entry to the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Soleil Couchant, Seine-Port, now in the collection of the Louvre. Huet spent from late summer to autumn in 1852 and 1853 in the small village of Seine-Port.