A Wild Beech in Full Leaf

1858

Paul Huet

Associated Names
Paul Huet

Artist, French, 1803 - 1869

The image shows a large tree as the focal point, surrounded by mountains in the background. Intricate pencil strokes capture the tree's branches and leaves in detail on textured paper. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of gray and black. Rocks and a stream are depicted in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 48.7 x 65.8 cm (19 3/16 x 25 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1993.58.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

artist's atelier stamp (Lugt 1268); (David and Constance Yates, New York); purchased 1993 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1869

  • [possibly exhibited] Burty, Philippe. Paul Huet: Notice Biographique et Critique Suivie du Catalogue de ses Oeuvres Exposées en partie dans les salons de l'Union Artistique. Paris, 1869: no. 266 (as Hètre sur le torrent de la Grande-Chatreuse).

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 14.

Bibliography

1869

  • Burty, Philippe. Paul Huet: Notice Biographique et Critique Suivie du Catalogue de ses Oeuvres Exposées en partie dans les salons de l'Union Artistique. Paris, 1869: no. 266 (as Hètre sur le torrent de la Grande-Chatreuse).

1908

  • Bénédite, M. Léonce et. al. Discours Prononcés a l'Occasion de l'Inauguration du Monument élevé a la Mèmoire de Paul Huet dans le Parc de Saint-Cloud. Paris, 1908: no. 266, as Hètre sur le torrent de la Grande-Chartreuse.

Inscriptions

lower left in brown ink: au désert de la Chartreuse

Wikidata ID

Q64619039

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