Félix Hilaire Buhot
Title page for Letters from My Lighthouse
1876-1886
Physical Qualities
Etching, aquatint, roulette, drypoint, Sheet: 303 x 209 mm. (11 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Plate: 176 x 114 mm. (6 15/16 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
1996.48.11145
Impression bears symphonic margins; later state published in the series "Six eaux-fortes pour illustrer les Lettres de mon Moulin de Alphonse Daudet (Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882)"
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: upper left, in image "[?] / ALP. DAUDET"; center, in image "LETTRES / DE / MON / MOULIN"; lower left ,in margine "SOUS PREFET / AUX CHAMPS"; lower left, in image "ALEME / ! DITEUR / PASSAGE CHOISE[?]", "Felix Buhot"; lower center "Felix Buhot inv. sc."; bottom left "Lettres de mon Moulin (pl. 1)"
Markings: Artist's stamp: monogram with owl, in red ink (Lugt 977)
