Bronze Toad (Crapaud Bronze)

1883

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image displays a large amphibian-like creature in the lower center with a textured pattern covering its body. There is a smaller blobby form above it to the left. The color palette includes a sepia tone background and black ink for the illustrations, with red printed patterned elements near the bottom. The amphibian is the focal point of the image, while the smaller form appears ethereal, floating above it. In the bottom left and right corners are sections of ornate red stamps or prints.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and drypoint on Chinese, gold-flecked yellow paper

  • Credit Line

    The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.5 × 15.4 cm (8 7/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.6 × 21.7 cm (13 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.67.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcaud 1979, no. 18

  • Series Title

    Japonisme

Artwork history & notes

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. 18

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at upper right: 7 / Bronze encrier / Collection de Mr Ph. Burty; in plate, at lower left: FB / 1883; verso: none

Markings

recto: at bottom, partial Chinese export stamp [woodcut] printed in red: 0 1/2 / TSHING [Yut Shing] / NTON [Canton] / ENGLIN / N-SUNE

Watermarks

none

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