La Place des Martyrs et La Taverne du Bagne (The Place des Martyrs and the Jailhouse Tavern)

1885

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, lift-ground aquatint, drypoint, roulette, and burnishing in brown-black, with selective wiping, on cream laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.7 x 44.9 cm (13 1/4 x 17 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.8 x 56.7 cm (14 7/8 x 22 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.54.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 163, State i/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

by later hand, lower right below plate mark in graphite: premier état; lower right in plate: FELIX BUHOT_Nov._1885; lower center with red stamp: FB (Lugt 977); lower right in plate (vertically): O Forçats!; across bottom in plate: Pendant ... labeurs / Eternels ... chaines / Ayant ... gehennes / Et ... rancoeurs / O Forçats! ... inspire / C'est ... désepoirs / Ici ... rire / Et ... comptoirs; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Cat 163 I / La Taverne du Bagne; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 614003; by later hand, upper right in graphite: R741; by later hand, lower right in graphite: [tls-]; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 836/[?]; by later hand, right verso in graphite: [... et Dercioux jaune et le ... ]

Wikidata ID

Q75394112


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