In the style of
Christophe HUET
19th Century, French School
Still Life of Trophées of the Hunt
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
70 by 46 inches framed

Born in 1694, Christophe Huet was a French painter, engraver, and designer who worked in the Rococo style.  He is best remembered for his unusual paintings of animals acting like humans and adorned in human clothing.

Huet is most famous for the attractive interiors that he designed for various houses in and around Paris.  He is responsible for the décor of a salon in the château of Champs, which he painted for Madame de Pompadour.  He painted the Cabinet des Singes at the Hôtel de Rohan, Paris.  In 1733, he worked with Claude Audran III on the décor of the château of Anet for the Duchesse du Maine.   He is credited for Chantilly’s enchanting singeries,  Large Singerie and Small Singerie.   

In all these décors Huet featured conventional Chinese characters busily engaged in very Occidental pastimes and accompanied by monkeys imitating men. These witty scenes, painted in an alert style, without constraint and with great elegance, put Huet in the ranks of the best ornamental painters of the first half of the 18th century.  His work is featured in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

$18,400

In the style of
Christophe HUET
French, 19th Century
Still Life of Trophées of the Hunt
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
70 by 46 inches framed

$18,400