Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 668

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JEAN-BAPTISTE HÜET
(Paris 1745-1811 Paris)
The Good Mother.

Pen and black ink and gray wash on cream laid paper, 1787. 130x130mm; 5x5 inches. Signed and dated in ink, upper left recto.

Provenance: Private collection, New York; private collection, Santa Fe.

The composition of this drawing is nearly identical to another drawing of the same subject by Hüet in pen and ink and wash dated 1786 (see Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 1953, number 8, illustrated).