L'Angélus, c. 1876

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on cream laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15 x 10.9 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/16 in.)

sheet: 16.8 x 12.2 cm (6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 72, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2006.57.6

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: FB (in monogram); lower center below plate mark stamped in red and crossed out with an "x" in graphite: FB (Lugt 977); across bottom below plate mark in graphite: L'Angelus l Crepuscule / 2. etat [mar ] epreuve / [ ] / Cat. no. 78 / définite; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: URF

Marks and Labels

The artist's stamp (Lugt 978)

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 3, 1976; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

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

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.