The Marine Painter (Le Peintre de Marine)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

This image features a silhouetted figure walking on a shoreline. The viewpoint is low, looking slightly upwards. The horizon divides the intense sky and sea. The dark, expressive etchings create textures in the sky and water. Birds fly across the sky, adding movement. The ground has textured lines suggesting seaweed and water ripples. The color palette is monochromatic with blacks and grays. Cross-hatching adds to the moody atmosphere.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, aquatint, stop-out, sandpaper ground, and spit bite in blue-black and black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.1 × 20.7 cm (5 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 22.9 × 36 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 146, State iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 19, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

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. 146, iii/iv

Inscriptions

at top left in plate: 21 R. DE LA VIEILLE / ESTRAPADE 2 / GELIZE / A PARIS (?); at top right in plate: La Fuite de Fermelll (?) F. Buhot.

Wikidata ID

Q75422678

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