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Drawing, Study of a Goat

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jean-Baptiste Huët. It is dated 1772 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, red-brown watercolor on white paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

  • Fragment (France)
  • H x W: 22 x 27.7 cm (8 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.).
  • Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan.
  • 1906-15-18-a/c

Its dimensions are

12.8 x 16.9 cm (5 1/16 x 6 11/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Stamp: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in black, lower center verso: Lugt 457d; stamp: J. Peoli in violet, lower left verso: Lugt 2020

It is signed

Signed in brush and brown ink, lower left quadrant: J.B. Hüet 1772

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study of a Goat; Jean-Baptiste Huët (1745 – 1811); France; pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, red-brown watercolor on white paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink, lined; 12.8 x 16.9 cm (5 1/16 x 6 11/16 in. ); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-169

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