Spleen et Idéal

c. 1876

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

This is a drawing of a horse-drawn carriage on a pathway. The image is rendered in a style with intense crosshatching and dense, dark lines to depict texture and movement. The foreground shows a horse pulling the carriage, with the horse's head positioned downward. The carriage is depicted at a slightly elevated angle, with intricate hatch marks creating depth and shadow. The background is shaded heavily, filled with dynamic lines suggesting a turbulent sky. Strong contrasts between light and dark are used to add drama to the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, and foul bite in black on cream laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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 Number

    2012.92.16

  • 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

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