L'Hiver à Paris (Winter in Paris)

1879

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, spit-bite etching, softground etching, drypoint, and scraping in black on artificial vellum

  • Credit Line

    Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.7 x 32.9 cm (8 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.6 x 36.4 cm (10 1/16 x 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.54.38

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 128, State iii/ix

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2005

  • The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 17, as Winter in Paris (Paris in the Snow).

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 of main image in plate: Felix Buhot Paris Xbre 1879; lower right of main image in plate: à la Place Breda / 9 Décembre; lower left in plate: FB (monogram) / 25; upper left in plate: Montmartre; lower left in plate (in reverse): Chauffeur public; lower center in plate (in reverse): au Boulevard des Italiens; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 12541; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: MG-82-87-RGA.Met

Wikidata ID

Q75394046

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