La Place Pigalle en 1878 (Place Pigalle in 1878), 1878

Not on View

Medium

etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette with burnishing in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24 x 33.7 cm (9 7/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

sheet: 30 x 44.5 cm (11 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 129, State vi/vi

Accession Number

2002.98.413

Artists / Makers

Félix-Hilaire Buhot (artist) French, 1847 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: FB 1878; lower left in plate: a la place Piqalle (crossed out) Pigalle / 1878; lower right with red stamp: FB (Lugt 977); in upper right rectangular block, between café chair and dog, faintly inscribed in plate: Fontaine Pigalle; by later hand, lower right in graphite: R. 199; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Ber 129; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 72649

Provenance

Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 6, as Place Pigalle in 1878.

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.