Old Master & British Drawings

/

Lot 124
  • 124

Grégoire Huret

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Grégoire Huret
  • Recto: Funeral Scene;verso: Studies of Falling Devils
  • Black and white chalk on grey-blue paper (recto);
    black chalk (verso);
    bears numbering in black chalk, verso: 6 and deleted inscription

Provenance

Nicolas Joly, Paris;
from whom acquired in 1996 by Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston

Literature

A.L. Clark et al., Mastery & Elegance, Two Centuries of French drawings from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, (and Toronto, Paris, Edinburgh, New York and Los Angeles) 1998-2000, p. 419, no. A.162

Catalogue Note

As Alvin L. Clark noted in the catalogue of the 1998-2000 Horvitz Collection exhibition, Huret was a prolific printmaker (only the fourth member of the profession to enter the Académie), and most of his drawings are highly finished modelli, made in preparation for transfer to the copper plate.1

1.  Clark, op. cit., p. 124, under no. 13