Le Port aux Mouettes (Port with Seagulls), 1886

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, aquatint, and sandpaper ground in black on beige laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.1 x 36 cm (9 7/8 x 14 3/16 in.)

sheet: 30.6 x 44.2 cm (12 1/16 x 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 162, State ii/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.1255

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: LE PORT AUX MOUETTES; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Buhot, le port aux mouettes (2me Etat).; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B 162; by later hands; lower right verso in graphite: yc / LD

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 42, as Port with Seagulls.

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.