Félix Hilaire Buhot
Le chateau des hiboux; Ex Libris de Léon Lerey
1876-1886
Physical Qualities
Etching, drypoint, aquatint, Sheet: 172 x 235 mm. (6 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Plate: 114 x 180 mm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/16 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
1996.48.8031
Two prints on one plate printed in two different inks (left, black-gray and right, brown-black). According to a description on C. & J. Goodfriend's website "the plate was begun in 1877, on the right side, as a bookplate for the dealer Léon Lerey. It was never completed and the blank area of the plate was never cut off. Ten years later, Buhot retrieved the copper, drew the owl's castle at the left and, deciding to incorporate both images in one design, added the sketches and tonal variations in and around the two." [http://www.drawingsandprints.com/CurrentExhibition/printwin.cfm?ExhibitionID=53&Exhibition=15&action=print]
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: Signed in plate: lower right, in image "Felix Buhot" Inscribed in plate: in image, on right "EX LIBRIS", "Caesaris / Burcus"
Markings: Artist's stamp: monogram with owl, in red ink (Lugt 978)
