La Messe de Minuit (Midnight Mass)

1887

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette, and softground on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift from the Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • 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

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 169

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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

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