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Street Scene in London

1879

Félix Hilaire Buhot

(French, 1847–1898)

France, 19th century

Pen and black and brown ink, black crayon and graphite, heightened with white and yellow gouache

Sheet: 19.5 x 24.4 cm (7 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.384

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in black ink: FELIX BUHOT; lower right, in black ink: Lodres - 1879 - / le croquis fait partie de la Collection - sur Londres - ; stamped, lower left, in black ink: FB [circled]

Provenance
Probably 1898-?
Jean Buhot [1885-1952], Paris
?-1982
Private collection, Paris
1982
(Hotel Drouot, Paris. April 21, 1982, no. 17)
?-1989
(Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, Germany, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH)
1989-2008
Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2008-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Dufresne, Jean-Luc, Valérie Sueur, and Alison McQueen. Félix Buhot: peintre graveur : entre romantisme et impressionnisme, 1847-1898. Cherbourg: Isoète, 1998. 
Debaisieux, Françoise, France Rouillé, Chantal Pellegrin, Monique Bacquier, and Jean-Luc Dufresne. Felix Buhot, 1847-1898 Peintures, Dessins, Gravures : exposition du 5 juin au 14 septembre 1981. Exh. Cat. Caen: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1981. Mentioned: no. 139
Hotel Drouot, Paris. Atelier Félix Buhot, 1847-1898: tableaux modernes, April 21, 1982. Lot 17. Mentioned: no. 17; Reproduced: on cover
Dufresne, Jean-Luc, Valérie Sueur, and Alison McQueen. Félix Buhot: peintre graveur entre romantisme et impressionnisme, 1847-1898. Cherbourg: Isoète, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 95, no. 207
Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned: p. 8; Reproduced: fig. 12, p. 9
Exhibition history

French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); The Dahesh Museum (February 19-May 28, 2002).

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