La Place Pigalle en 1878 (Place Pigalle in 1878), 1878

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Medium

etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette with burnishing in brown-black and brown-red on vellum

Dimensions

plate: 23.7 x 33.1 cm (9 5/16 x 13 1/16 in.)

sheet: 31.4 x 44.3 cm (12 3/8 x 17 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 129, State vi/vi

Accession Number

1995.54.35

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right below plate mark in graphite: épreuve d'essai pour le 4e Etat de la planche (effaçage du cartel à droite) / Felix Buhot; lower right in plate: FB 1878; lower left in plate: a la place Piqalle (crossed out) Pigalle / 1878; lower left with red stamp: FB (Lugt 977); in upper right rectangular block, between café chair and dog, faintly inscribed in plate: Fontaine Pigalle; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 3873; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 9 / 54 (circled)

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 74, as Place Pigalle in 1878.

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 7, as Place Pigalle in 1878.

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.