Convoi Funèbre au Boulevard de Clichy (Funeral Procession on the Boulevard de Clichy), 1887

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Medium

heliogravure, etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing in blue-green and brown-black on toned wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.)

sheet: 32.2 x 45.2 cm (12 11/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 159, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.1236

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: épreuve d'essai du [?] / Felix Buhot; lower left in plate: Insouciant Flaneur, ennemi des Chloroses / Ce croquemort defunt trouvait plaisant de voir / Sur des ciels Parisiens aux tons bleus gris ou roses / Deux ou trois corbillards se detacher en noir (The care-free idler, enemy of chlorosis [anemia] / This dead undertaker's man [mute] used to take pleasure in seeing / Against Parisian skies of blue, gray, or rose, / Two or three hearses, silhouetted in black) / Felix Buhot 1887

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris (Lugt 421); Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Beurdeley, Alfred
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 31, repro.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 79, as Funeral Procession on the Boulevard de Clichy.

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.