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Les Petites Chaumieres (Thatched Cottages -- Small Plate)

1878

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image displays a rural landscape with thatched-roof cottages and geese in the foreground. Smoke rises from one of the cottages' chimneys. The scene is depicted from a slightly elevated angle, with a high horizon and a sky filled with clouds. The brushstrokes are fine and detailed, adding texture to the houses and vegetation. The color palette is primarily black and sepia tones, emphasizing the rustic scenery.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching, aquatint, drypoint, and scraping on tan wove paper
Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

plate: 10 × 13.8 cm (3 15/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
sheet: 12.7 × 15.7 cm (5 × 6 3/16 in.)
Accession Number

2017.199.16
Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 149, iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Gunnarsson, Helena

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, no. 149, iv/iv.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: [indecipherable] Felix Buhot

Markings

Felix Buhot's studio stamp (Lugt 978)

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