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Lot 141: Nicolas Huet the Younger (Paris 1770-1828)

Est: £0 GBP - £0 GBP
BonhamsLondon, United KingdomApril 20, 2005

Item Overview

Description

A Hornbill
signed lower left in pen and brown ink: huet and inscribed in pencil below the signature: PL. 284/ Calao trompette (Adulte)
pen and black ink and watercolour
482 x 345mm
unframed

Artist or Maker

Notes


Nicolas Huet was official painter at the Empress Josephine's Musee d'Histoire Naturelle et de la Menagerie. Two similarly refined watercolours depicting a seabird and an exotic crow, both signed in the same way, were at Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2003, lots 119 and 120.

Auction Details

Old Master Paintings

by
Bonhams
April 20, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

101 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1S 1SR, UK