Les Vieux (The Elders), c. 1885

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series Title

Alphonse Daudet's "Lettres de Mon Moulin" [Bourcard 109-113]

Medium

etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.4 x 11.4 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

sheet: 30.4 x 20.9 cm (11 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 113, State v/vii

Accession Number

1995.54.6

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in margin in plate: FBAQ (monogram); lower center (further down) in margin in plate: FBAQ (reverse monogram) / Les VIEUX page 121; lower left in margin in plate: LETTRES / DE / M.M / 5; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 5; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: APG 10798/5

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Goodfriend, C. & J.
Gunnarsson, Helena

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.