Félix Hilaire Buhot
Woman Reading by Lamplight
1879
Physical Qualities
Etching and aquatint, Sheet: 306 x 213 mm. (12 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Plate: 181 x 130 mm. (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth S. Hirsh, Baltimore
Object Number
1995.182
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1995; Elizabeth Hirsch, Baltimore; Alfred Beurdeley, Paris (Lugt 421)
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Jay Fisher and Colles Baxter. Felix Buhot: Peintre-Graveur, Baltimore: BMA. Gustave Boucard. Felix Buhot, New York: Martin Gordon, Inc.
Inscribed: lower center in ink: "C'est atroce/mais rarissme!//Philippe Burty ne l'a pas//C'est un crime (bis)//Qui du mechant graveur mèrite le trepas"; by later hand, lower left in graphite: "B137"; by later hand, upper right in graphite: "Croquis Direct sur (Hine) un soir Barham Court (Kent) Nov. 1879"; by later hand, lower left verso in graphtie: "B7683"
Markings: WM: illeg.; CM: Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919; Lugt 421)
