Live Auction 7888Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours (Day Sale)
Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)
Lot 296 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR 

Paul Huet (French, 1803-1869)

Soleil couchant à Seine Port

Closed8 December 2010

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GBP 6,875

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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, when acquired by the present owner ($9,200).

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.