Lot 84
  • 84

Jean Baptiste Huet

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Baptiste Huet
  • six designs with putti accompanied by musical instruments and other attributes of the liberal arts
  • Each pen and black ink and gray wash, two within drawn lunettes; 
    two signed and dated: J.B. hüet. 1787. and four signed and dated: J. B. hüet.1788.

Catalogue Note

These could have been designs for paintings to be inserted in the boiserie of a room decoration, or possibly, on a different scale, for printed cartouches.  One of the pair of compositions in drawn lunettes shows a putto representing Apollo inspiring the arts; the group of four show putti with various attributes of science, architecture, sculpture and music.