36. Félix Buhot
1847-1898

La Dame aux Cygnes (The Woman with Swans)

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La Dame aux Cygnes

La Dame aux Cygnes (The Woman with Swans)

Etching, drypoint and roulette, 1879, 131 x 181 mm., Bourcard/Goodfriend 144 iii/iii. Provenance: Buhot family (circular stamp). Very fine impression printed, unusually, on thick japan paper with good margins, signed with the large red owl stamp. Small glue stains in the margins and verso. Etched into the plate is the legend "Souvenir de Barham Court (Kent) from a sketch by Mrs. E. V. B." We do not know the identity of the English lady, but her sketch provoked a haunting image made particularly memorable by the tiny technical refinement of stopping-out around the lost profile of the woman's face.