Les Esprits des Villes Mortes (Spirits from the Cities of the Dead), 1885

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Medium

etching, roulette, drypoint, lift ground, aquatint, scraping and burnishing on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 28.8 x 39 cm (11 5/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
plate: 29.2 x 39.1 cm (11 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)

sheet: 36.9 x 54.7 cm (14 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 160, State v/vi

Accession Number

1943.3.1262

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black crayon: Au dessus des monts au dela des pres / Nuages de feu des cieux diapres / Legeres cohortes / Qu'emportent ... / Felix Buhot

Provenance

Roger Marx (Lugt 2229)

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. 82.

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 10, as Spirits from the Cities of the Dead.

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

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.

1983: Fisher/Baxter 1983, 82.