Une Jetée en Angleterre (A Pier in England), 1879

Not on View

Medium

drypoint and roulette in black on 18th-century laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.6 x 19.8 cm (11 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)

sheet: 35.1 x 24.3 cm (13 13/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 132, State i/viii

Accession Number

1990.105.4

Artists / Makers

Félix-Hilaire Buhot (artist) French, 1847 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Felix Buhot; lower left in graphite: Pointe sèche / l'après nature . (imprimé à 12 epreuves); lower left in plate: Felix; lower left in plate reversed: Folkestone [not deciphered] 1879. / Felix Buhot

Provenance

Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; partial gift to NGA, 1990 (gift completed 1995).

Associated Names

Gunnarsson, Helena
Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Exhibition History

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 216-217, color repro.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 75, as A Pier in England.

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 51, as A Pier in England.

Bibliography

1899: Bourcard, Gustave. Felix Buhot: catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre grave. Paris: H. Floury, 1899. Reprint. With additions and revisions by James Goodfriend. New York: Martin Goodfriend, 1979.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.216.