The Passage, 1879-1885

Not on View

etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and soft-ground etching in brown (main subject) and in black (margin illustrations) on heavy wove paper

plate: 32.5 x 24.4 cm (12 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 44.6 x 31.3 cm (17 9/16 x 12 5/16 in.)

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 143, State ii-iii/iv

2012.92.18

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

lower center in plate: A Holiday / Rain Storm and / Music; lower right in plate, Cat. Bi / La Traversée. no. 143

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 3, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Prouté, S.A., Paul

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 57.

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, 143, ii-iii/iv