About the Artwork
Flood Tide at Honfleur (Autumnal Equinox)
ca. 1835
Paul Huet
1803-1869
French
Unknown
Chalk and watercolor on paper
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (26.7 × 34.3 cm) Framed: 16 1/2 × 20 5/8 × 1 inches (41.9 × 52.4 × 2.5 cm)
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker
F81.423
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center right: 42 Inscribed, in pencil on mat: No 6. | Seligm.
Stamp, in red, lower right: PAUL HUET [double circled] (Lugt 1268; 1878 atelier sale) Watermark, at lower center: [illegible] Stamp, in black, verso, lower right: [on the mat is a framed horse facing left under crest with feathers]
Provenance
E. Mocqueris. April 15-16, 1879, Paul Huet Atelier Sale, no. 161. (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.) B.F. Walker
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exposition de L'Oeuvre de Paul Huet. Exh. cat., Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Paris, 1911, p. 53, no. 226.
Master Drawings. Exh. cat, Jacques Siligmann & Co. New York, 1961, no. 22.
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Paul Huet, Flood Tide at Honfleur (Autumnal Equinox), ca. 1835, chalk and watercolor on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, F81.423.
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