Cottages with figures, surrounded by pines

Details

JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET (PARIS 1745-1811)
Cottages with figures, surrounded by pines
with inscription ‘huet’ (on mount, lower right)
black and white chalk on brown paper
12 ¾ x 16 ½ in. (32.5 x 41.7 cm)

Provenance

with Colnaghi, London.
Paul and Helen Bernat, Boston (their stamp on mount, not in Lugt).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 267.

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Lot Essay

Similar examples of black and white chalk landscapes by Jean-Baptiste Huet are at the Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes (inv. D. 76.27) and in a private collection (see Jean-Baptiste Huet. Le plaisir de la nature, exhib. cat., Paris, musée Cognac-Jay, 2015, nos. 34, 38, ill.).

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