On allume les cierges pour les Morts (They light candles for the dead)

1878

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, and roulette in black on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.6 x 11.5 cm (6 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 22.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9571

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 95, State iii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

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 center below central image in plate: Felix Buhot inv sct; lower left in plate: On allume des cierges pour Morts p 255; right margin in plate: Par Ordre / du / Roy (the "d" in Ordre and the "d" in du are backwards); by later hand, lower right in graphite (trimmed): EE 2894

Wikidata ID

Q65019888

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