Frontispiece for L'Illustration Nouvelle: The Burial of the Burin

1877

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brush and black ink with gray and white gouache and white chalk heightening over charcoal on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.8 x 44.1 cm (12 1/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.152.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Arsène Bonafous-Murat, Paris, 2004); Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA in 2005

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2005

  • The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 1.

Bibliography

2004

  • Bonafous-Murat, Arsène. Félix Buhot, 1847-1898: Estampes, dessins, autographe. Paris, 2004, no. 185, reprod. p. 47.

Inscriptions

Across bottom of drawing, FRONTISP ILLVSTRATION NOUVELLE 1877; below the framing line at lower right in pen and black ink, Première idée de l'Enterrement du Burin/Felix Buhot [paraphe]

Wikidata ID

Q64561312

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