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Félix Buhot, with almost two hundred prints to his credit, belongs to the category of the so-called “peintre-graveur” (painter-printmaker), a term coined by a preeminent scholar of master prints, Adam Bartsch, in the early nineteenth century, in order to recognize painters who made prints as original works of art, and carried through the entire process of printmaking, not only inventing a design to be executed by a master printer.
Buhot adopted etching for most of his graphic works, and called his innovative explorations of the media “sketches and paintings on copper.” While famous for his Paris and London scenes, throughout his life Buhot felt a close association with his birthplace, Normandy, a coastal region in northern France. In this print he pays affectionate tribute to the Norman landscape, depicting one of its oldest Romanesque churches.
As in the "Rest on the Seine River Banks" landscape, the choice of media is critical for rendering the character of the scene. Where the lithographic process of shifted registration creates warm, serene, impressionistic effects, the layering of line and several tonal intaglio processes in "The Jobourg Church" evokes the raw, pious, and nostalgia-saturated nature of the scene.
MH, 2013
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Etching; Aquatint; drypoints (prints) Link to share this object record:
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