Art, literature & history
La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)
1886/1890
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and burnishing in brown-black (central plate) and black ink (margin plate) on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.9 x 39.6 cm (11 3/4 x 15 9/16 in.) sheet: 38.6 × 52.5 cm (15 3/16 × 20 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1990.105.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay), 1886/1890. 1990.105.2. Félix-Hilaire Buhot; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.nga.gov/artworks/71687-la-falaise-baie-de-saint-malo-cliff-saint-malo-bay. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1886/1890.
Medium: heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and burnishing in brown-black (central plate) and black ink (margin plate) on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29.9 x 39.6 cm (11 3/4 x 15 9/16 in.) sheet: 38.6 × 52.5 cm (15 3/16 × 20 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1990.105.2. Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
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.