La Traversée (The Passage)

1879-1885

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

This is a drawing of a collage of maritime and rainy weather scenes. The drawing is a collection of intricate sketches depicting varied scenes set on a ship. There are travelers on the deck with umbrellas in the upper right, a rainy scene with a dog and figures in the top left, and a staircase on the deck center. Nautical elements like sails or masts are scattered throughout. The piece captures moments on a sea voyage with an emphasis on the texture of weather elements like rain and clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint and stop-out in black on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1240

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 143, State ii-iii/iv

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.

Inscriptions

lower right below plate mark in graphite: Essai tire à 50 epreuve / Felix Buhot; lower center in plate: A Holyday / Rain, Storm and / Music; lower right in plate: La Traversée; lower right in plate: Cat Bi / No 143

Wikidata ID

Q64955913

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