La Traversee (The Passage), 1879-1885

Not on View

etching, drypoint, roulette, and soft-ground etching with graphite notations on laid paper

plate: 32 x 23.9 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 37.2 x 28.5 cm (14 5/8 x 11 1/4 in.)

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 143, State before i/iv

2005.152.11

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

lower center in graphite in image: Squall and music a very pleasant crossing a musical crossing

By descent to the artist's family (Lugt 4245), Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.

Gunnarsson, Helena

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 54.

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, no. 143, before i/iv.