About the Artwork
La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne
1885
Félix Hilaire Buhot
1847-1898
French
Unknown
Etching and aquatint printed in color on textured, cream wove paper
Plate: 13 1/8 × 17 5/8 inches (33.3 × 44.8 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 × 20 1/8 inches (40.3 × 51.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Daoust
2011.145
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Markings
Inscribed, on sheet, lower left: Pendant qu'ils sont la-bas revés a des labeurs | Eternels par la griffe implacable des chaines | Ayant sur eux la Chiourme au dedans des gehennes | Et crachant en jurons immondes leurs rancœurs (While they are out there, dreaming of the eternal labors, having on them the relentless claw of chains of the Chiourme, inside the Gehennas, swearing and spitting in their filthy rancor) Inscribed, on sheet, lower right: O Forçats! Tout le Bien que leur misère inspire | C'est de battre la caisse avec ces désespoires | Ici dans un boulet le Passant trouve a rire | Et la chaine en gros sous tinte sur les comptoirs (O Convicts! How well their misery inspires the drumbeat of such despair | here a passerby finds laughter in a ball, and the chain tinkles on the bar counters)
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Daoust
2011-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Boucard, Gustave, and Arsène Alexandre. Félix Buhot: Catalogue descriptive de son œuvre gravé. Paris, 1899, pp. 105-106.
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Félix Hilaire Buhot, La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne, 1885, etching and aquatint printed in color on textured, cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Daoust, 2011.145.
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