Art, literature & history
Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)
1876/1877
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint with scraping and burnishing in black on light blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 8 x 11.9 cm (3 1/8 x 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 9.5 x 12.6 cm (3 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1247
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers). Félix-Hilaire Buhot; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%A9lix-Hilaire_Buhot,_Les_Noctambules_(The_Night_Prowlers),_1876-1877,_NGA_4450.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1876/1877.
Medium: etching and aquatint with scraping and burnishing in black on light blue laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8 x 11.9 cm (3 1/8 x 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 9.5 x 12.6 cm (3 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1247. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.