55. Félix Buhot
1847-1898

Le Petit Chasseur (The Little Hunter)

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Le Petit Chasseur

Le Petit Chasseur (The Little Hunter)

Lithograph, 1892, 262 x 371 mm., Bourcard/Goodfriend 181 ii/ii. A fine impression printed, as almost always, in grey-green on china paper with small margins. Toward the end of his life, Buhot gave up etching altogether but produced a small group of lithographs, some quite impressionistic in feeling. In typical fashion, he took advantage here of a small accident to the stone, producing a print whose outline shape recalls a painter's palette. As it was one of the disappointments of his life that his paintings never achieved the recognition given to his prints, it is a personal and rather touching artistic comment.