La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay), 1886/1890

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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

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.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 165, State v/vi

Accession Number

1990.105.2

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

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]

Marks and Labels

lower left: Felix Buhot studio stamp (Lugt 977)

Provenance

Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; partial gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Gunnarsson, Helena

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.