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FÉLIX BUHOT La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne<>.
Etching, aquatint and drypoint printed in black, 1885. 335x451 mm; 13 1/4x17 3/4 inches, small to thread margins, probably as printed. Second state (of 3). Signed and inscribed "4e epreuve d'essai du 2e etat, imprime par moi" in pencil, lower right, and dedicated "a Monsieur . . . (the name effaced)" and counter signed in pencil, lower center.
The overall sepia toned appearance of the current work is probably not time stain, rather a result of the artist bathing the paper in a solution of tea or coffee before printing. According to Goodfriend, Buhot's experimentation, "was not limited to choosing papers of intrinsic interest but extended to modifying the papers himself in certain ways. He apparently, on occasion, painted the paper with watercolor or immersed it in tea or perhaps coffee before printing on it. He also, reportedly, was fond of treating paper with turpentine, kerosene, or gasoline (papier essencée<>) also before printing," Bourcard/Goodfriend, Félix Buhot, Catalogue Descriptif de son Oeuvre Gravé<>, New York, 1979, Introduction p. 5. Bourcard/Goodfriend 163.
