The Marine Painter (Le Peintre de Marine)
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint, stop-out, sandpaper ground, and spit bite in blue-black and black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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