Le Bas-Hamet

1879/1880

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

This is a drawing of a snowy village scene with various sketches around it. In the center, there is a snowy village street with houses and a figure. The sky above is depicted as heavy and dark. Surrounding the central scene are various delicate sketches of figures and forms, adding a dreamlike quality. The margins of the paper are filled with lightly sketched figures, possibly representing imaginative or spiritual elements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground) in black on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.5 x 11.4 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 23.3 x 16.6 cm (9 3/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.54.50

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 107, State iv/vi

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

James Goodfriend, New York; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: LE BAS-HAMET (p 201); lower center below plate mark stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977); by later hand, lower left in graphite: P. VIII; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B/G 107 iv/vi; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 79; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: APG 6931/10

Wikidata ID

Q75394027

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