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Lever de lune a Dinard (Moonrise at Dinard)

1891

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image is of a scenic view overlooking a body of water at either dawn or dusk. In the foreground, leafless trees reach towards the water, with a hill sloping downwards beyond them. The background shows a wide expanse of water with small boats. The color palette is primarily beige and gray. The brushstrokes and etching lines are fine and delicate, emphasizing detail and texture in the tree branches and hill.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint, with burnishing on wove paper
Credit Line

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

plate: 33.3 × 43.2 cm (13 1/8 × 17 in.)
sheet: 37.6 × 50.4 cm (14 13/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Accession Number

2017.199.19
Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 179

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. 179.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite verso: W 001.82; lower right in graphite verso: HOX

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