Harvard Art Museums > 7.2007: The Funeral of the Burin (Frontispiece) Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Funeral of the Burin (Frontispiece) (Félix Hilaire Buhot) , 7.2007,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/165406. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 7.2007 People Félix Hilaire Buhot, French (Valognes (Manche), France 1847 - 1898 Paris) Title The Funeral of the Burin (Frontispiece) Other Titles Original Language Title: L'Enterrement du burin Series/Book Title: L'Illustration nouvelle Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1877 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/165406 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching and drypoint with roulette and aquatint on off-white laid paper Technique Etching, drypoint and aquatint Dimensions plate: 34.6 × 27.5 cm (13 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 49.4 × 32.5 cm (19 7/16 × 12 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: lower left, in plate: fx buhot inv. + scu. inscription: in plate, right: L'ILLUSTRATION NOUVELLE / PARIS / 1877 inscription: in plate, left: 1876 watermark: lower left, partial: An inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: finix inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: A00449 State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State v/v Standard Reference Number B. / G. 124 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan Object Number 7.2007 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Commentary This is the commercially published state of one of Buhot's less well-known etchings. Now he is more famous for his whimsical compositions, uniquely wiped with colored inks and printed on exotic papers. This composition is indeed whimsical, but the content, the triumph of etching over engraving, is a distinctly late-19th-century theme that has little resonance today. In 1877 Buhot and "L'Illustration nouvelle" were celebrating the artistic dominance of the Etching Revival, which had relegated all other graphic processes to the limbo of commercialism. By this date, both metal and wood engraving were not "original" print processes, and woodcut and lithography had yet to be revived as artistic means of expression, as they would be in the 1890, when etching came to seem too fluent a medium. Nine years earlier, however, in 1868, it commissioned its frontispiece from Félix Bracquemond, another leading artist of the French Etching Revival. This composition was selected by Frederick Keppel, the leading American dealer in etchings in the late 19th century, for a presentation before The Union Club of New York in 1890 or 1891. Exhibition History 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2022 - 07/14/2022 Related Works 2019.123 Félix Hilaire Buhot The Funeral of the Burin (Frontispiece) Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
