About the Artwork
Monkey Dining Alfresco
ca. 1773
Jean Baptiste Hüet
1745-1811
French
Unknown
Graphite pencil, bordered with pen and brown ink, on buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 5 5/16 inches (11.4 × 13.5 cm) Framed: 10 1/2 × 11 3/8 × 3/4 inches (26.7 × 28.9 × 1.9 cm)
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker
74.35
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower left corner: J. B. hüet Signed, verso, lower center: JB Huët [underscored] Signed, in pen and black ink, on mount, lower right: J-B. Hüet
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Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA) 1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 2 (1974): p. 62.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 211, no. 99.
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Jean Baptiste Hüet, Monkey Dining Alfresco, ca. 1773, graphite pencil, bordered with pen and brown ink, on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, 74.35.
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