Liseuse à la Lampe (Woman Reading by Lamplight), 1879

Not on View

Medium

etching with scraping and burnishing in black on thin tissue paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.1 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

sheet: 24 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 137, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.1251

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left below plate mark in graphite: Croquis sur Line, d'après nature. / fait à Barham Court (Kent); lower right below plate mark in graphite: Felix Buhot; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Liseuse à la lampe; by later hand, lower right in graphite: EE709

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1983: Félix Buhot, Peintre-Graveur: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, The Baltimore Museum of Art, traveling exhibition to three venues, 1983-1984, no. 63.

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.