Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Woman holding a fruit sits on a low chair. One son kneeling on the floor to the left reaches for the fruit, while a younger baby in a cradle [?] to the right also gestures for the fruit. A painted screen and a toy horse fill the left side of the room and a chair in the right foreground and drapery behind the cradle complete the boudoir interior.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
- Date
- possibly 1782
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor on white paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 23.2 x 18.1 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. )
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
