Félix BUHOT: La Ronde de nuit - 1878

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Etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 131 x 143 mm. Bourcard/Goodfriend 70 ii/iii.

Very fine impression on greenish-blue laid paper, signed in pencil Félix Buhot FB (name and monogram). Ex collection Charles Jacquin (Lugt 1397a).

Good condition; tiny sewing and binding holes in the lower margin. Remains of paper tapes along the upper edge on the back with glue stain visible on the front. Small margins (sheet: 214 x 280 mm).

According to G. Bourcard and J. Goodfriend, there were only about twenty impressions taken before the plate was cancelled.