Market Scene with a Fantastic Sculpture, 1797/1798

Not on View

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1983.52.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Hüet (artist) French, 1745 - 1811

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.

Exhibition History

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

1983: 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.