On allume les cierges pour les Morts (They light candles for the dead), 1878

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series Title

Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Le Chevalier Destouches" [Bourcard 91-95]

Medium

etching, drypoint, and roulette in black on Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.6 x 11.5 cm (6 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

sheet: 22.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 95, State iii/v

Accession Number

1943.3.9571

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center below central image in plate: Felix Buhot inv sct; lower left in plate: On allume des cierges pour Morts p 255; right margin in plate: Par Ordre / du / Roy (the "d" in Ordre and the "d" in du are backwards); by later hand, lower right in graphite (trimmed): EE 2894

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.