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Port with Seagulls


Le Port aux mouettes
Félix H. Buhot (French, 1847–1898)
1886

Medium/Technique Etching, sandpaper ground, drypoint, aquatint, stop-out; margins printed in light brown ink, with gray-black ink; central image, gray-black on
Dimensions Sheet: 28 x 44 cm (11 x 17 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 24.6 x 35.8 cm (9 11/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Keppel Memorial Prints. Gift of David Keppel
Accession NumberM25004
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bourcard 162 iv; Fisher 083 7/7
DescriptionHarbor of Saint-Malo with town buildings and Dinard's distinctive spire in the background; "This impression...is one of the most harmonious and beautiful of Buhot's oeuvre. Image exhibited in the Salon of 1886."
Inscriptionsl.l. Central image in plate: FELIX BUHOT - 1886
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 3/1/1914 [exact to month]