Price on requestSigned lower left: hüet
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour
373 x 234 mm., 14 ½ x 9 ¼ in.
Private Collection, UK
Engraved
For Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d’Oiseaux, published 1838, pl. 283
The Golden-Whiskered Barbet is found in tropical forests in Malaysia.
Huet’s father Jean-Baptiste and grandfather Nicolas Huet the Elder were both artists specialising in animal and bird paintings. He visited Egypt on Napoleon’s scientific and artistic expeditions between 1798 and 1801 and exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1802. In 1804, he was appointed Painter to the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle and to the menagerie of the Empress Josephine. The museum owns a series of 246 drawings on vellum of animals, birds, insects and sea life which were published as engravings in 1808. He exhibited at the Salon until 1827 and produced work for many aristocratic collectors.
Price on requestSigned lower left: hüet and inscribed: présageur (adulte.)
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour
Sheet 373 x 235 mm., 14 ½ x 9 ¼ in.
Provenance
Private Collection, UK
Engraved
For Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d’Oiseaux, published 1838, pl. 290
The Channel-Billed Cuckoo is a type of Cuckoo found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia.
Price on requestSigned lower left: hüet
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour
273 x 235 mm., 10 ¾ x 9 ¼ in.
Provenance
Private Collection, UK
Huet’s father Jean-Baptiste and grandfather Nicolas Huet the Elder were both artists specialising in animal and bird paintings. He visited Egypt on Napoleon’s scientific and artistic expeditions between 1798 and 1801 and exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1802. In 1804, he was appointed Painter to the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle and to the menagerie of the Empress Josephine. The museum owns a series of 246 drawings on vellum of animals, birds, insects and sea life which were published as engravings in 1808. He exhibited at the Salon until 1827 and produced work for many aristocratic collectors.
