Victor Pierre Huguet, (French, 1835-1902)

Street scene with figures

Street scene with figures
signed 'V Huguet' (lower right)
oil on panel
33 x 24cm (13 x 9 7/16in).

Provenance
Durand-Ruel, Paris/New York.
MacConnal-Mason & Son Ltd., London.
Private collection, UK.
Thence by descent.

Victor Pierre Huguet began his artistic studies at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, before studying in Paris, alongside the Orientalist painter Eugene Fromentin. He first visited Egypt in 1852, aged just 17; he then accompanied Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager on an expedition to record the Crimean War. He later visited Algeria, Libya, Algeria and Istanbul.

Huguet first exhibited at the Paris and Marseille Salons in 1859; he was a regular contributor at the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français from its inception in 1893.