Félix Hilaire Buhot
The Burial – Small Plate
1878
Physical Qualities
Etching, roulette and aquatint, with additions in brown ink, Sheet: 159 x 225 mm. (6 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
Plate: 87 x 115 mm. (3 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.8015
George A. Lucas cultivated personal connections with many
artists at all phases of their careers. Here, Félix-Hilaire
Buhot used his etching of a funeral procession in the rain
as stationery for a letter he wrote to Lucas, writing in the
margins surrounding the printed image. By the time he
created this print, Buhot’s work was renowned by collectors
in France as well as in the United States, in part due to
Lucas’ influence.
Lucas owned over 260 prints by Buhot and also assisted
New York City-based collector Samuel Putnam Avery (1822–
1904) in acquiring prints by the artist. Avery’s collection
ultimately contained around 300 prints by Buhot. Lucas
and Avery often purchased several versions of a print to
show differences in ink, paper type, and design.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Joseph S. Czestochowski, The Maryland Institute, Decker Gallery, Baltimore, Apr. 6 - 27, 1976.
Felix Buhot Peintre Graveur, The Baltimore Museum of Art, July 10 - August 28, 1983, Cat #59b, Illus. p. 100.
Joanna Karlgaard and Robin Owen Joyce, BMA, "Deconstructing Nature: Environmental Transformation in the Lucas Collection," August 27, 2025 - January 11, 2026.
Felix Buhot Peintre Graveur, The Baltimore Museum of Art, July 10 - August 28, 1983, Cat #59b, Illus. p. 100.
Joanna Karlgaard and Robin Owen Joyce, BMA, "Deconstructing Nature: Environmental Transformation in the Lucas Collection," August 27, 2025 - January 11, 2026.
Inscribed: Signed in plate: upper right "F [owl] B (monogram)" Inscribed in ink: in margins [letter to Lucas from Buhot] The margins are taken up with the text of a letter from Buhot to Lucas asking him to come up to see him. Also in the center below the image, the stamp of Buhot. In the upper left corner of the image "FB", in a monogram.
Markings: Artist's stamp: monogram with owl, in red ink (lugt 977)
