Après la pluie (After the Rain), 1873 or 1874 (reworked 1877)

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, and aquatint in black-brown on cream laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 11.7 x 15.9 cm (4 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.)

sheet: 15.7 x 23.1 cm (6 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 27, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1995.54.29

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: fB / 1872 / Après la pluie; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 9271; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: ox[?]

Marks and Labels

Felix Buhot's studio stamp (Lugt 978)

Provenance

James Goodfriend, New York; Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 82, as After the Rain.

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 4, as After the Rain (My Small Town).

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.