Victor Pierre Huguet (French, 1835-1902)
A Bedouin encampment
signed 'V. huguet.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40.5 x 33.2cm (16 x 13in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private collection, France.
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The canvas has not been lined and provides a stable support for the work. There are two patch repairs visible on the reverse, one in the upper-left corner and the other in the lower-right corner. Upon close inspection, there is fine, stable craquelure in the sky. When viewed in raking light, there is a stretcher bar mark along the top edge and there is an uneven paint surface in the upper-right corner which corresponds to the aforementioned repair. Inspection under UV light reveals a large area of retouching in the upper-right quadrant with some smaller lines of retouching elsewhere.