La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay), 1886/1890

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Medium

heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint in gray-green (central plate) and black (margin plate) on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.7 x 35.7 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.)

sheet: 35 x 48.3 cm (13 3/4 x 19 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 165, State ii/vi and 165 ii/iii

Accession Number

1995.54.56

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center below plate mark in graphite: 2eme Etat - (tiré à vingt (not deciphered) épreuves); lower right below plate mark in graphite: Felix Buhot; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 86464

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 64, as The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay.

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.