La Traversée (The Passage), 1879-1885

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Medium

etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint and stop-out in brown-black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.9 x 24.2 cm (12 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

sheet: 44.7 x 34 cm (17 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 143, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1995.54.59

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center to lower right below plate mark in graphite: epreuve d'artiste / Felix Buhot; lower center in plate: A Holyday / Rain, Storm and / Music; lower right in plate: La Traversée; lower right in plate: Cat Bi / No 143; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Essai abandonné tirè à très petit nombre; by later hands, across bottom verso in graphite: APG 5948 / (illegible) bistre / (two illegible lines crossed out) / No 8; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 3227

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 58, as The Passage.

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.