La Traversee (The Passage)

1879-1885

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, roulette, and soft-ground etching with graphite notations on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32 x 23.9 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.2 x 28.5 cm (14 5/8 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.152.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 143, State before i/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent to the artist's family (Lugt 4245), 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. 54.

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. 143, before i/iv.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite in image: Squall and music a very pleasant crossing a musical crossing

Watermarks

Van Gelder (partial)

Wikidata ID

Q76339377

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