Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
VICTOR HUGUET | THE FALCONERS
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June 11, 01:09 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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VICTOR HUGUET
French
1835 - 1902
THE FALCONERS
signed Huguet lower right
oil on canvas
65 by 83cm., 25½ by 32½in.
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Mathaf Gallery, London (by 1984)
Purchased from the above
Possibly, Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposiiton Coloniale Internationale de Paris, Section Rétrospective, 1931 (as La chasse au faucon)
Brussels, Gallery CGER, L'Orientalisme et L'Africanisme dans L'art Belge, 19e et 20e siecles, 1984, listed
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 177, cited, p. 178, catalogued & illustrated
In the lineage of the great French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, Victor Huguet excelled at painting horses and hunting scenes set in Northern Africa. Here, a group of horsemen watches as one of their falcons catches its prey.