Live Auction 7822Cabinet d'un Amateur Européen
Christie’s roundel
Lot 353

Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)

Soleil couchant à Seine Port

Closed9 December 2009

Estimate

GBP 7,000–10,000

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Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)
Soleil couchant à Seine Port
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'a r. Salisse (?)/Souvenir Bien(?) affectueux Huet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15¼ x 26½ in. (38.8 x 67.3 cm.)

Pierre Carnot, Paris.
Heim Gayrac Collection
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25 May 1995, lot 183, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work is a preliminary sketch for Huet's entry to the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Soleil Couchant, Seine-Port, now in the collection of the Louvre. Huet spent from late summer to autumn in 1852 and 1853 in the small village of Seine-Port.