Design for a Frontispiece: A Man Guiding a Crowned Woman and her Attendants to the Entrance of a Palace

ca. 1640–60

Not on view

Huret was an inventive draftsman and printmaker who was admired for his mastery of elaborate architecture and perspective, the refinement of his figures, and the preciosity of his technique. Although its subject has yet to be identified, this recently discovered sheet is remarkable for its rich rendering of ornament and pattern. A regal young woman, apparently a queen, is led toward an ornate palace, followed by her retinue. Putti cavort in the clouds overhead bearing a banderole left blank for a title, suggesting that the drawing may have been a design for a print. The inscription at lower left indicates that a past owner believed the drawing to be by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, a seventeenth-century Flemish artist.

Artwork Details

Title: Design for a Frontispiece: A Man Guiding a Crowned Woman and her Attendants to the Entrance of a Palace
Artist: Grégoire Huret (French, Lyon 1606–1670 Paris)
Date: ca. 1640–60
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 10 1/8 in. (42.5 × 25.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift and funds from various donors, 2018
Object Number: 2018.351
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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