Westminster Palace
1884
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, roulette, salt ground, and stippling with tonal wiping in black (main subject) and brown ink (margins) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 28.9 x 39.7 cm (11 3/8 x 15 5/8 in.)
sheet: 36 x 52.3 cm (14 3/16 x 20 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.199.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 155, State vii/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 30.
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. 155, vii/vii.
Inscriptions
upper right in graphite: B 155; lower left in graphite: Westminster Palace; lower right in graphite: epreuve d'essai Felix Buhot; lower left in graphite verso: W 001.83; lower right in graphite verso: FOX W 001.83
Markings
Felix Buhot's studio stamp (Lugt 977)
Watermarks
J KOOL