La Traversée (The Passage)

1879-1885

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, roulette, and softground etching (?) in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32 x 23.9 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 43.2 x 31.2 cm (17 x 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.54.60

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

James Goodfriend, New York; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2005

  • The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 55, as The Passage.

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.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG10876; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 67

Watermarks

ARCHES (partial watermark)

Wikidata ID

Q75394096

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