Jean-Baptiste Huet
Landscape with Two Children Playing by a Cottage
Epoque Laid down on a 19th century mount.
Medium Charcoal and black chalk, extensively heightened with white chalk, with framing lines in brown ink, on buff paper.
Dimension 31.7 x 46 cm (12¹/₂ x 18¹/₈ inches)
Jean-Léon Decloux (1840-1929) was a well-known collector of mainly 18th century French furniture, drawings, engravings, porcelain and objets d’art. Much of his important collection of ornamental prints and drawings was sold by him to the Misses Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt and is today in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.
Epoque: Laid down on a 19th century mount.
Medium: Charcoal and black chalk, extensively heightened with white chalk, with framing lines in brown ink, on buff paper.
Signature: Signed and dated j. huet. 1768. at the lower left.
Dimension: 31.7 x 46 cm (12¹/₂ x 18¹/₈ inches)
Provenance: Léon Decloux, Sèvres
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot [Chevallier], 14-15 February 1898, lot 83, sold (or bought back by the owner?) for 200 francs
Decloux sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot [Baudoin], 29-30 November 1920, lot 68 (Paysage rustique. Deux enfants sont couchés sur des bottes de paille; au second plan, des perches réunies par des cordes. Dessin au crayon noir et rehauts de blanc, sur paper gris. Signé et daté: 1768. Haut., 35 cent.; larg., 47 cent. Cadré ancien en bois sculpté doré.).
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