La Diligence de Beaucaire (The Diligence of Beaucaire), c. 1885

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series Title

Alphonse Daudet's "Lettres de Mon Moulin" [Bourcard 109-113]

Medium

etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint in black on Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.4 x 11.3 cm (6 7/8 x 4 7/16 in.)

sheet: 30.1 x 20.9 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 110, State iv/vi

Accession Number

1995.54.3

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in margin in plate: FBAQ (monogram); lower left in plate: 3 L L D M . M; lower center in plate: page 17; lower right in plate: DILIGENCE DE BEAU C; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 2; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 10798/5

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

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.