Le retour des artistes (The Return of the Artists), 1877

Not on View

Medium

etching, aquatint, and roulette in black on thin Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.7 x 32 cm (8 1/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

sheet: 27 x 39.2 cm (10 5/8 x 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 125, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1995.54.32

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Au Palais des Champs Elysées / Le 20 Mars a 6 heures de soir / F Buhot sc / 21 Mars 77; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 76; by later hands, across bottom verso in graphite: P 2320 / 20 Mars, [au des?] Champs Elysees / 78/8- EALW

Provenance

James Goodfriend, New York; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 25, as The Return of the Artists.

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.