Description & Technical information
This atmospheric watercolour is likely to be a view of a lake in the valley of the Auvergne - possibly the Lac de Guéry in Puy-de-Dôme - and may be dated to c.1833. An analogous landscape watercolour of what may be the same view is in the Bruyas collection of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, while another was exhibited in Paris in 1982. Another related watercolour by Huet was formerly in the Pierre Miquel collection and appeared on the art market in Paris in 2004.
Date: 1833
Period: 1850-1900, 19th century
Medium: Watercolour, Pencil underdrawing
Dimensions: 14 x 18.8 cm (5¹/₂ x 7³/₈ inches)
Provenance: In Huet’s studio at the time of his death, with the atelier stamp (Lugt 1268) at the lower right.
By descent in the family of the artist Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s South Kensington, 15 December 2000, lot 204
Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London, in 2001.
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints
Discover the gallery
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Old Master, 19th Century and Modern Drawings, Watercolours and Oil Sketches
More Works From This Gallery
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Portrait of Giovanni Boldini
Walter Richard SICKERT (Munich, 1860 - Bath?, 1942)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
The Dream of the Seven Hills (De Droom der Zeven Heuvelen)
Jan Toorop (Poerworedjo, 1858 - The Hague, 1928)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
The Head of a Bearded Man
Adolph Von MENZEL (Breslau, 1815 - Berlin, 1905)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Untitled
Kenneth NOLAND (Asheville, 1924 - Port Clyde, 2010)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Untitled (Expansionist Series)
Vivian SPRINGFORD (Milwaukee, 1913 - New York, 2003)
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
A Naval Display
Luigi Loir (1845 - 1916)