Le Hibou

Alternate TitlePauca Paucis

Artist Félix Hilaire Buhot (French, 1847 - 1898)

Date1883

MediumEtching with drypoint, aquatint, roulette, soft ground, sandpaper ground, and stop-out, in black ink; margin in sepia ink

DimensionsImage: 17 3/8 × 12 3/4 inches (44.13 × 32.39 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/4 × 14 inches (53.98 × 35.56 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell

Object number57-115/14

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Exhibition History

Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 23-November 20, 1983, no. 18.

Provenance

Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 14, 1957;

Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1957.

Published References

Gustave Bourcard and James Goodfriend, Félix Buhot, catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre gravé (New York: M. Gordon, 1979), no. 161, pp. 103-04, as Le Hibou.

[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no. 18, as Le Hibou or Pauca Paucis.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 291, as Le Hibou or Pauca Paucis.

Published References

[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no 18., p. 6.

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