40 YEARS 40
our fortieth-anniversary show
our fortieth-anniversary show
- French School, Adoration of the Shepherds
- Mantegna, Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
- Robetta, Adoration of the Magi
- Dürer, The Virgin with the Infant Child
- van Leyden, St. Francis of Assisi
- Altdorfer, Dido
- after Raphael, Raphael and His Mistress
- Pencz, The Taking of Carthage
- Brosamer, Nude Woman in Profile
- Barocci, Madonna and Child in the Clouds
- Zucchi, Design for an Ornate Ceiling
- Goudt, Tobias with the Angel
- Della Bella, Le Reposoir du Saint Sacrement
- Rembrandt, Woman Sitting Half-Dressed Beside a Stove
- Challe, Fantasy Capriccio of a Roman Palace
- Piranesi, St. Peter’s
- Bonet, The Lady ta King Coffee; The Milk Woman
- Goya, Felipe IV, Rey de España
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
- Whistler, Thames Police
- Manet, Queue Devant la Boucherie (Siège de Paris)
- Doré, Children’s Ward in a London Hospital
- Buhot, La Maison Maudite
- Guérard, Eventail: Oiseaux dans les Roseaux
- Rivière, La Village de La Chapelle
- Auriol, Bois Frissonnants
- Lepère, Les Laveuses (Les Blanchisseuses)
- Toulouse-Lautrec , La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine
- Cezanne, Self Portrait at the Easel
- Sloan, Turning Out the Light
- Goodwin, Durham with the Cathedral
- Villon, Musiciens Chez le Bistro
- Kollwitz, Selbstbildnis
- McBey, Farm Scene at Hatford
- Beckmann, Umarmung (Embrace)
- Drewes, The City (Carcassonne)
- Sutherland, Number Forty-Nine
- de Chirico, Scuola di Gladiatori II
- Friedlander, 3 A.M.
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
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23. Félix Buhot (1847-1898) La Maison Maudite |
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La Maison Maudite
Etching and drypoint, 1877, Bourcard/Goodfriend 117 i-ii/iii, 247 x 178 mm., ex collection: HB (Henrietta Buhot). Superb proof impression, with heavy plate tone, of an unrecorded state between the first and second, on old laid paper with a crowned shield watermark and large, full margins. The state is before the shadow at the left of the seated old woman, before erasure of the clouds of smoke at the right of the woman and before the horizontal shading over most of the lower plate area. The burr is rich and heavy and there are some wavy streaks of wiping at the bottom of the plate and the lower right and left sides. The border line at the left and bottom is still very strong. Though inspired by Barbey d’Aurevilly’s novel L’Ensorcelée, for which Buhot made a set of illustrations, this print never appeared in the book, even in cut-down form. Verso is the pencil inscription “Pour une épreuve,” possibly in the hand of Mme. Buhot. A wonderfully effective and possibly unique impression.
