Jacques Cazotte's "Le Diable amoureux" (2nd vignette), 1878

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on moderately thick Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 5.1 x 7 cm (2 x 2 3/4 in.)

sheet: 16.5 x 16.8 cm (6 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 97, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1995.54.40

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

center left in plate: ni soit / AQ ED; lower left in plate: Fx Buhot / del sc. / 1878; lower center below plate mark stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977); by later hand, lower right in graphite: 2 (circled); by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: Coll: (not deciphered); by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 12; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: [A]B; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Cat. 97; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 9561/3

Provenance

Buhot heirs (stamp, F.B, Lugt undescribed); James Goodfriend, New York; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
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.