Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)

1876/1877

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint with scraping and burnishing in black on light blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8 x 11.9 cm (3 1/8 x 4 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 9.5 x 12.6 cm (3 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.1247

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 69, State unrecorded third state

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 117.

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 left in plate: Buhot; lower left below plate mark in graphite: Les Noctambules ; lower right below plate mark in graphite: Felix Buhot [20 epr?]; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Buhot - Les noctambules / Epr. l'artiste, sur papier [?]; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: KK 564; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B. 69

Wikidata ID

Q64955923

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