Le Couvre-Feu (The Curfew) [recto], 1874/1875

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Medium

etching, drypoint, aquatint, and burnishing in black on light blue wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.1 x 10 cm (3 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

sheet: 11.3 x 14.4 cm (4 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 66, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1994.60.9.a

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Tohub (Buhot backwards); lower left margin in plate: Le Couvre-Feu - (10 h. du soir; lower center margin in plate: FB (in monogram); lower right margin in plate: Félix Buhot Valognes; lower center below plate stamped in red: FB (Lugt 977); lower left in graphite: Cat 72 / le Couvre feu; lower right in graphite: Tiré à 12 epreuves

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.

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.