Spleen et Idéal
c. 1876
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, and foul bite in black on cream laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 16.2 x 8.8 cm (6 3/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.) -
Accession
2012.92.16
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 78, State iv/v (previously 73 ii/iii)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Caroline Boyle-Turner Prints, Inc., Paris); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 8, 1983; 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.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate (in drypoint): F Buhot; by later hand, lower center in graphite: [???]; by later hand, across bottom verso in graphite: B. 73 Spleen et Ideal ou le Fiacre aux Amours; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 797
Wikidata ID
Q75422682