Market Scene with a Fantastic Sculpture

1797/1798

Jean-Baptiste Hüet

Artist, French, 1745 - 1811

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black and brown ink with gray and brown wash and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite and traces of black chalk on laid paper, with the remains of a framing line in brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 44.9 x 56.3 cm (17 11/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.52.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

H. Farman, Paris. (Galerie Cailleux, Paris); (P.&D. Colnaghi & Co., New York); acquired 1983 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • 18th Century French Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., New York, 20 April - 26 May 1983, no. 8.

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 270-271, 292, no. 117 (color).

Bibliography

2006

  • Laing, Alastair, et al. The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor, The National Trust: Drawings for Architecture Design and Ornament. 2 vols. Aylesbury, 2006: 254, under no. 186

2007

  • Carey, Juliet. Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Exh. cat. Wallace Collection, London, and Djanogly Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham. London, 2007: 78, fig. 20.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: J.B. hüet- lan 6 de la R: f.

Watermarks

D & C/B within an armorial

Wikidata ID

Q64581133

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