Une Jetée en Angleterre (A Pier in England)
1879
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint, roulette, aquatint, spit-bite, softground with sandpaper, and etching (?) in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 29.9 x 20 cm (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 44.5 x 31 cm (17 1/2 x 12 3/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.105.5
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 132, State ii/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt; 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.
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 52, as A Pier 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.62b.
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 center with red stamp: FB (Lugt 977); lower right in plate: FB; lower left in plate: Felix; lower left in plate reversed: Folkestone [not deciphered] 1879. / Felix Buhot; by later hand, lower left in graphite: B. 132/II; by later hand, lower right in red pencil: 20; by later hand, upper right in red pencil: [?]E (circled); by later hands on verso in graphite: a64937 / EWxv / B. 132/II (von IV)
Watermarks
Arches
Wikidata ID
Q74885897