La Messe de Minuit (Midnight Mass)
1887
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette, and softground on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 33.2 × 44.1 cm (13 1/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
sheet: 35.9 × 54.6 cm (14 1/8 × 21 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2017.199.31
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 169
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.
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. 169.
Inscriptions
upper right in graphite: B. 159; lower left in graphite: RC#87; lower center in grapite: Premiere etat/Felix Buhot/ La Messe de Minuit cat. no. 214; lower right in graphite: La Messe de Minuit; lower right verso in graphite: 18105
Watermarks
present but not identified