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Jean-Baptiste Huet
1745-1811
Boy and Girl, Goatherds in Landscape
1777
Pen and brown ink, and watercolor, on paper.
9 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (238 x 197 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 292
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Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, at lower left corner, "J. B. Hüet 1777"; inscribed on verso in graphite, across upper center, "PL...", and at lower right, "11 1/2 x 13 1/2 scim..color".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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