Une Jetée en Angleterre (A Pier in England)
1879
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 29.9 x 20.1 cm (11 3/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 51.5 x 34.1 cm (20 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.105.6
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 132, State vii/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection (stamp, [?]Bs in green, Lugt undescribed); 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.
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 76, as A Pier in England.
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 53, 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.62e.
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: Une jetee 3ème état. très rare.
Wikidata ID
Q74885903