La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)

1886/1890

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image shows a landscape with a path leading to a water body. The horizon is higher in the composition with silhouettes meeting the water and sky. The sky has textured clouds. The brushstrokes seem detailed, capturing variations in the landscape and sky. The color palette is mostly gray. There is dense vegetation and a hill in the foreground. The border of the image has decorative motifs.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, and spit bite, aquatint, and burnsihing in black (central plate) and gray-green (margin plate) on heavy wove light green paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate (outer): 29.6 x 39.9 cm (11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.)
    plate (inner): 22.5 x 29.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 38 x 55.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 165, State v/vi (central plate) ii/ii (margin)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Martin Gordon Gallery, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 1, 1969; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2005

  • The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 65.

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 left in plate: L'Abri-Dinard 1889-1890; lower left, stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977)

Wikidata ID

Q75422574

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