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Jean-Baptiste Huet
1745-1811
Studies of Corn and Wheat
1792
Watercolor, and some gouache, over black chalk, on paper.
10 x 15 1/2 inches (254 x 401 mm)
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
1992.2
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Watermark: Coat of arms with a letter T on a globe (see Heawood 2394), fragment.
Inscription:
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "J. B. Hüet 1792"; numbered in different ink, at upper left, "14".
Provenance:
Acquired from Kate de Rothschild, London.
Associated names:
De Rothschild, Kate, former owner.
Bibliography:
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 85, repr. in color.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 19, repr. in color.
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