La Place Pigalle en 1878 (Place Pigalle in 1878), 1878

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

plate: 25.9 x 35 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 29.9 x 39.5 cm (11 3/4 x 15 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 129, State iv/vi

Accession Number

1943.3.1238

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right below plate mark in graphite: Felix Buhot; lower left to lower center in plate: Felix Buhot pinx sc. / Etat tiré à épreuves / EPREVVE FB / D'AR / TISTE / Se trouve a Paris / rue de Breda 15 / La Place Pigalle en 1878 / chez l'auteur / proche la Station de fiacres

Exhibition History

1945: French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 22.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 143.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 73, as Place Pigalle in 1878.

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.