The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

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JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET | SHEPHERDESS WITH GOATS

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 touches 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, no. 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 five oils by the artist from this date portraying Huntress Nymphs.