Flood Tide at Honfleur (Autumnal Equinox), ca. 1835

  • Paul Huet, French, 1803-1869

Chalk and watercolor on paper

  • Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
  • 16 1/2 × 20 5/8 × 1 inches (41.9 × 52.4 × 2.5 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

F81.423

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]

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center right: 42 Inscribed, in pencil on mat: No 6. | Seligm.

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)

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.

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.