Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)

1876/1877

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint in black on beige laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.1 x 12 cm (3 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 18.7 x 24.6 cm (7 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 69, State unrecorded third state

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C.; 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 left in plate: Buhot; by later hand?, lower center left in graphite: Les Noctambules/ VI 133; by later hand?, lower right below in graphite: 2èmé etat; by later hand, lower left in graphite: B 69; lower center below plate mark stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977)

Watermarks

partial watermark

Wikidata ID

Q75422812

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