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Nicolas Huet The Younger
A Leopard
Estimate:
10,000
to
- 15,000 USDProperty from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
Nicolas Huet The Younger
Paris circa 1770 - 1828
A Leopard
Pen and brown ink and watercolor with touches of gouache over traces of black chalk, within brown wash framing lines, on vellum;
signed and dated, in pen and brown ink, lower left: huet fils. an. 1809 and inscribed, lower right: 1/4, also inscribed on the back of board, in pen and brown ink: Panthère Mâle / par huet, peintre du muséum l'histoire naturelle de Paris.
310 by 445 mm; 9 1/2 by 15 1/4 in
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2012, lot 54
Nicolas Huet, son of Jean-Baptiste Huet, was official painter to the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle et de la Ménagerie of the Empress Josephine, and specialised in painting animals and plants. A particularly fine example of his work, depicting a tiger, was sold, Sotheby's New York, Wednesday, 24 January 2007, lot 00079