Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers), 1876/1877

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Medium

etching and aquatint in black on beige laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.1 x 12 cm (3 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

sheet: 18.7 x 24.6 cm (7 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 69, State unrecorded third state

Accession Number

2012.92.19

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Buhot; by later hand?, lower center left in graphite: Les Noctambules/ VI 133; by later hand?, lower right below in graphite: 2èmé etat; by later hand, lower left in graphite: B 69; lower center below plate mark stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977)

Provenance

Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

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.