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

1887

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image shows a street scene with a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground. The road is busy with figures, carriages, and horses. Buildings line both sides of the street, leading to the horizon in the upper third of the image. The style features loose brushstrokes or etching lines to convey movement. The color palette is muted, with tones of sepia, blue, and black suggesting a nighttime or dusk setting. A moon is visible in the sky, surrounded by clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1236

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64955900

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