Japanese Baptism
Original Language TitleBaptême Japonais
Artist
Félix Hilaire Buhot
(French, 1847 - 1898)
Date1887
MediumEtching, drypoint, and aquatint in brown ink
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 5 1/4 inches (22.07 × 13.34 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 8 1/4 inches (33.18 × 20.96 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 8 1/4 inches (33.18 × 20.96 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number53-51/44
SignedSigned on sheet recto below plate, lower right margin, in pencil (?): "Felix Buhot"
InscribedInscribed on mat, in pencil: "Collection of R. Marx"
Inscribed, at centers of four sides, in pencil: [register marks] ^
Inscribed, upper right corner, in pencil: "B. 167"
Inscribed, lower left edge, in pencil: "Baptême Japonais"
Inscribed, lower center edge, in pencil: "62511"
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Exhibition HistorySplendors of Japanese Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 31-December 1, 2014, no cat., as Japanese Baptism.
Félix Buhot was trained as a painter but found his true calling as a printmaker. Here he creates a charming portrait of Jean, his baby boy, surrounded by motifs inspired by Japanese art and culture. Known as japonisme, this stylistic inf luence can be seen in the paper lanterns, owls, ceramic vessels and crouching men that Buhot brings together into decorative vignettes. Japonisme reached its peak in the last quarter of the 19th century and made a strong impact on the art of Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, among others.
Frances M. Logan (1855-1946), Kansas City, MO, by 1946;
Bequeathed by Frances M. Logan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
Gustave Bourcard and James Goodfriend, Félix Buhot, catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre gravé (New York: M. Gordon, 1979), no. 167 II/II, p. 111, as Baptême Japonais.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 291, as Baptême Japonais.
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