The Marine Painter (Le Peintre de Marine)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, aquatint, stop-out, sandpaper ground, and spit bite in blue-black and black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.1 × 20.7 cm (5 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 22.9 × 36 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 146, State iii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 19, 1973; 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, no. 146, iii/iv

Inscriptions

at top left in plate: 21 R. DE LA VIEILLE / ESTRAPADE 2 / GELIZE / A PARIS (?); at top right in plate: La Fuite de Fermelll (?) F. Buhot.

Wikidata ID

Q75422678


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