La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)
1886/1890
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and burnishing in brown-black (central plate) and black ink (margin plate) on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 29.9 x 39.6 cm (11 3/4 x 15 9/16 in.)
sheet: 38.6 × 52.5 cm (15 3/16 × 20 11/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.105.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 165, State v/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; partial gift to NGA, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 234-235, color repro.
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 66, as The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay.
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, no. 165, v/vi.
1983
Fisher/Baxter 1983, cf.84.
1984
Master Prints from Washington Private Collections, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984: no. 45.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.234.
Inscriptions
lower left with red stamp: FB (Lugt 977); lower left in plate: 1886 [barely visible in undergrowth] / FB; lower left in plate: L'ABRI DINARD 1889-1890; lower left in graphite: B 165; lower right in graphite: B 165 La Falaise Baie de [undecipherable] 5th of 5 [undecipherable]
Markings
lower left: Felix Buhot studio stamp (Lugt 977)
Wikidata ID
Q74885870