Félix Hilaire Buhot
Pierrot Pendu
1874
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 178 x 103 mm. (7 x 4 1/16 in.)
Plate: 149 x 79 mm. (5 7/8 x 3 1/8 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
1996.48.13495
Drawing on verso (trimmed pencil sketch of landscape). According to a description on C. & J. Goodfriend's website "The work was actually done as a bookplate for Paris à l'Eau-Forte although in the publication it was simply included with other plates in the pages. The meaning of this particular image and its text quite escapes us." [http://www.drawingsandprints.com/CurrentExhibition/printwin.cfm?ExhibitionID=16&Exhibition=15&]
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
Inscribed: Inscribed in plate: in image, left "PARIS / A / L'EAU FORTE / 3e année / TOME"; lower left "Felix B. sc"; lower center "Aspice PIERROT PENDU / Qui hunc librum n'a pas rendu / Si hunc librum reddidisset / Pierrot pendu non fuisset"; lower right "1875"
Markings: None
