Frontispiece for L'Illustration Nouvelle: The Burial of the Burin, 1877

Not on View

Medium

pen and brush and black ink with gray and white gouache and white chalk heightening over charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.8 x 44.1 cm (12 1/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Accession Number

2005.152.3

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

Across bottom of drawing, FRONTISP ILLVSTRATION NOUVELLE 1877; below the framing line at lower right in pen and black ink, Première idée de l'Enterrement du Burin/Felix Buhot [paraphe]

Provenance

(Arsène Bonafous-Murat, Paris, 2004); Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA in 2005

Associated Names

Bonafous-Murat, Arsene, Monsieur
Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 1.

Bibliography

2004: Bonafous-Murat, Arsène. Félix Buhot, 1847-1898: Estampes, dessins, autographe. Paris, 2004, no. 185, reprod. p. 47.