Un Débarquement en Angleterre (Landing in England)
1879
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), softground etching, and roulette in black with the artist's revisions in graphite on moderately thick cream wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 31.9 x 24 cm (12 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1990.105.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 130, State iii/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
James Goodfriend, New York; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; partial gift to NGA, 1990 (gift completed 1995).
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, 216-217, color repro.
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 77, as Landing in England.
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 46, as Landing in England.
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.
1983
Fisher/Baxter 1983, cf.61.
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.216.
Inscriptions
lower right below main image in ink: Felix Buhot; lower center below main image in ink: Le Debarquement en Angleterre. / ETAT - Epreuve à Changer; lower center below plate mark stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977); lower left in plate: Une Jetée (Souvenir d'Angleterre); by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 7226; by later hands, upper right verso in graphite: 69 / 3em Etat c
Wikidata ID
Q74885873