Ex-Libris pour "L'Ensorcelée" (Bookplate for "L'Ensorcelée"), c. 1883/1885

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series Title

Barbey d'Aurevilly's "L'Ensorcelée"

Medium

etching, drypoint, and aquatint in black-brown on cream laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.6 x 15.1 cm (8 1/2 x 5 15/16 in.)

sheet: 29.9 x 22.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 116, State ii/iii (counterproof)

Accession Number

1943.3.1245

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom below plate mark in graphite: Contre épreuve à l'essence du Per Etat Felix Buhot; lower right in plate (in reverse) Premier; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Ex-libris pour "L'Ensorcelée; by later hand, lower center in graphite: E2236; by later hand, lower right in brown pencil: Contre epreuve; by later hand, upper right in graphite: B. 116

Provenance

Unidentified collector (in pen, CB, Lugt undescribed); Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.