Auction Closed
October 14, 09:49 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET
Paris 1745 - 1811
SHEPHERDESS WITH GOATS
Black, red and white chalk, with toꦛuches of 🉐blue pastel;
signed and dated, lower right: JB Huet / 1762
10 ¾ by 12 in.; 278 by 305 mm.
Sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 8 March 1920;
Sale, New York, Christie's, 9 January༺ 1991, lot 71
A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. I, p. 400, nꦓ🧸o. 290/5, fig. 847, reproduced
The shepherdess depicted in the present drawing, though not the accompanying goat, is adapted from François Boucher's painting of 1745, Pomone, one of fi✱ve oils by the artist froಞm this date portraying Huntress Nymphs.