Le Port aux Mouettes (Port with Seagulls)
1886
Artist, French, 1847 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint and sandpaper ground in brown-black and black ink with white chalk on cream laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 24.7 x 35.8 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/8 in.)
sheet: 30.6 × 44.1 cm (12 1/16 × 17 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2017.199.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 162, State vi/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.
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, no. 162, vi/vii.
Inscriptions
upper center in graphite: 193; lower left in graphite: B.162 [undecipherable]; lower left to lower center below plate mark in graphite: 3e Etat - Six (erasure) epreuves; lower center to lower right below plate mark in graphite: Felix Buhot. lower left verso in graphite: Apg 9287 86663; lower center in graphite: Le Port aux Mouettes 1886 hand colored etching aquatint and drypoint B/G 162 v/vii signed and autographed by the artist
Wikidata ID
Q75403885