Frontispiece for "Zigzags d'un Curieux, d'Octave Uzanne"

1888

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on beige japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.8 x 16.8 cm (9 x 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 29.8 x 21.5 cm (11 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 172, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April, 1971; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

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 center below plate mark in graphite: Prem (crossed out) Deuxieme / Etat- / d'une piece composée et grave pour / les "Zigzags d'un Bibliophile / par Octave Uzanne. / Felix Buhot; lower left below plate mark in graphite: une douzaine d'épreuves. / 1 dont six sur Japon; lower center below plate mark stamped in red: FB (Lugt 978); by later hand, lower left in graphite: a 17072; by later hands, upper right verso in graphite: 245 33 Vue / 33 245 / 275 195 / 5.5 5.0; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: A17072

Wikidata ID

Q75422676

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