Art, literature & history
Liseuse à la Lampe (Woman Reading by Lamplight)
1879
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with scraping and burnishing in black on thin tissue paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 18.1 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 24 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1251
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. Liseuse à la Lampe (Woman Reading by Lamplight). 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,_Liseuse_%C3%A0_la_Lampe_(Woman_Reading_by_Lamplight),_1879,_NGA_4454.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Liseuse à la Lampe (Woman Reading by Lamplight) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1879.
Medium: etching with scraping and burnishing in black on thin tissue paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18.1 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 24 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1251. 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.