La Place des Martyrs et La Taverne du Bagne (The Place des Martyrs and the Jailhouse Tavern)
1885
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
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Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, lift-ground aquatint, drypoint, roulette, and burnishing in brown-black, with selective wiping (particularly in the bank of windows), on cream laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 34 x 44.9 cm (13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
sheet: 47.3 x 58.7 cm (18 5/8 x 23 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1995.54.53
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 163, State iii/iii
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. 27, as The Place of the Martyrs and the Jailhouse Tavern.
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
lower right in plate: FELIX BUHOT_Nov._1885; lower center with red stamp: FB (Lugt 977); lower right in plate (vertically): O Forçats!; across bottom in plate: Pendant qu'ils sont la-bas rivés a des labeurs / Eternels par la griffe implacable des chaines / Ayant sur eux la Chiourme au dedans des gehennes / Et crachant en jurons immondes leurs rancoeurs / O Forçats! Tout le Bien que leur misère inspire / C'est de battre la caisse avec ces désepoirs / Ici dans un boulet le Passant trouve a rire / Et la chaine en gros sous tinte sur les comptoirs; by later hand, upper right in graphite: B 163-; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 8949; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 27024 / [s]call / La Taverne du Bagne
Wikidata ID
Q75394115