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Les Esprits des Villes-Mortes (Spirits from the Cities of the Dead)

1885

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

This is a drawing that shows spectral figures in motion across the top of the image. Below them, there is a dark shape resembling a cityscape or landscape. The lower portion of the image has horizontal lines implying movement or wind. The color palette is limited to shades of black and gray, with a sketch-like style suggesting spontaneity and ethereality.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching, roulette, drypoint, lift ground, and aquatint on laid paper
Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

sheet (trimmed inside plate mark): 24.9 × 35.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 in.)
Accession Number

2017.199.1
Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 160, state i/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Gunnarsson, Helena

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, 160, i/v.

Inscriptions

lower left verso: APG 9009

Watermarks

partial and undeciphered

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