Art, literature & history
A cette lueur soudaine... (In the sudden gleam of light...)
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, and softground etching (for the grainy texture in the sky) in black on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.6 x 11.5 cm (6 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 22.1 x 14.8 cm (8 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.9573
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. A cette lueur soudaine... (In the sudden gleam of light...). 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,_A_cette_lueur_soudaine..._(In_the_sudden_gleam_of_light...),_1878,_NGA_12091.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A cette lueur soudaine... (In the sudden gleam of light...) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1878.
Medium: etching, drypoint, and softground etching (for the grainy texture in the sky) in black on Japanese paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 17.6 x 11.5 cm (6 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 22.1 x 14.8 cm (8 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.9573. 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.