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| Title | Hen and Chickens | |
| Collection | Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle | |
| Artist | Attributed to Huet, Jean-Baptiste, I (French painter and engraver, 1745-1811) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1764 | |
| Date Latest | 1811 | |
| Description | Huet draws here on an earlier seventeenth-century Dutch tradition of representing poultry (see for instance Melchior de Hondecoeter), but this picture is more lively, more naturalist than its predecessors. Huet exhibited at the Salon many times, and many of his paintings were commissions, a proof of his success. He painted poultry a number of times, sometimes in anecdotal scenes such as Fox in a Chicken Yard (1766), or Un Dogue se jetant sur des oies (Louvre). | |
| Current Accession Number | B.M.318 | |
| Former Accession Number | No. 302 | |
| Subject | animal (hen, chicks); landscape | |
| Measurements | 40 x 70 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by the founders John and Joséphine Bowes 1885. | |
| Provenance | Bought from Gogué by Bowes, 22 August 1865, 300 francs. Benjamin Gogué, Rue Childebert, Paris. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | 18th Century French and British Art, Glasgow, 1902, cat, no. 5. | |
| Notes | This was listed as no. 302 in John Bowes' catalogue, as 'A Hen, and her Chickens, Jean Baptiste Huet, born in 1748, died in 1811'. Frederick J. Cummings, Detroit Institute of Art, thinks that the attribution to Huet is correct (letter dated 17 December 1970). The dates are approximated by Huet's beginnings as a pupil of J.-B. leprince (1764), and the artist's death in 1811. | |
| Rights Owner | The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham | |
| Author | Dr Maylis Hopewell-Curie | |