Montmartre le 14 Juillet (Bastille Day in Montmartre)

1892

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image displays an urban landscape from a slightly elevated perspective, featuring a cityscape with a moody atmosphere. The horizon is high, showing architectural structures and rooftops against a misty sky. Distant buildings merge with the surrounding gloom. The painting has loose and expressive brushwork, with soft and smudged strokes creating a hazy quality. The color palette is monochromatic, using shades of black, gray, and white. Closer elements show indistinct forms of buildings and rooftops, adding to the dense scene. Background details are more abstract, blending into a textured sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    transfer lithograph with added crayon, ink, scraping, and stumping on the stone in black on heavy wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.1 x 49.2 cm (12 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 41 x 55.3 cm (16 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.54.58

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 185, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Buhot heirs (stamp, F.B, Lugt undescribed); 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. 8, as Bastille Day in Montmartre.

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 right in stone: FB / 1892; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 25; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: [A]B; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 9560

Wikidata ID

Q75394168

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