La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)
1886/1890
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Artwork overview
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Medium
heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, and spit bite, aquatint, and burnsihing in black (central plate) and gray-green (margin plate) on heavy wove light green paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate (outer): 29.6 x 39.9 cm (11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.)
plate (inner): 22.5 x 29.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 38 x 55.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.92.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 165, State v/vi (central plate) ii/ii (margin)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Martin Gordon Gallery, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 1, 1969; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 65.
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.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: L'Abri-Dinard 1889-1890; lower left, stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977)
Wikidata ID
Q75422574