Title Page for "Lettres de Mon Moulin"
c. 1885
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 17.6 x 11.3 cm (6 15/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
sheet: 30.4 x 20.9 cm (11 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1995.54.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 109, State iv/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
James Goodfriend, New York; 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
lower right below plate mark in graphite: Felix Buhot; lower left in graphite: [Col?] Imp. à 25 E[xemples]-; lower center in margin in plate: Félix Buhot inv. Sc; lower left in margin in plate: Lettre[s] de mon Moulin (pl. I); center in plate (on sheets of paper): LETTRES / DE / MON / MOULIN; upper left in central image in plate (on streamer): MOULIN ALP. DAUDET; lower left central image in plate: ALEM[erre] / [e]DITEUR / PASSAGE CHOISE[ul] / Felix Buhot; lower left in margin in plate: SOUSPREFE[T?] / AUX CHAMPS; by later hand, lower left in graphite: APG 10798/5
Wikidata ID
Q75394179