Frontispiece for L'Illustration Nouvelle: The Burial of the Burin

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1877

The image contains swirling and angular lines creating an abstract composition. There is a bold, curved shape on the right side resembling a steam locomotive, with a smokestack. On the left, finer lines form clusters… · description from the collection

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Artist: Félix-Hilaire Buhot ¹
Date: 1877 ¹
Medium: pen and brush and black ink with gray and white gouache and white chalk heightening over charcoal on laid paper ¹
Original: 3,272 × 4,630 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection

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This is a drawing of an interior scene with a woman in a doorway and three men in the foreground. The woman stands in the doorway, while the three men are engaged in conversation or debate. The room is furnished and…

The image shows a person standing upright. The individual is facing forward and holding their long hair with both hands. The person's facial features are minimalistic, with basic lines for a nose and eyes.

Rivista 'Fotosport: settimanale sportivo per ragazzi', I, n. 7, 8 dicembre 1951, p. 2

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