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Ex Libris with a Butterfly and Dragonfly
1877
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, spirit ground, and aquatint in purple ink on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.1 × 13.8 cm (4 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 33.6 cm (10 × 13 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2017.199.29
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. Ex Libris with a Butterfly and Dragonfly. Félix-Hilaire Buhot; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ex Libris with a Butterfly and Dragonfly — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1877.
Medium: etching, drypoint, spirit ground, and aquatint in purple ink on Japanese paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.1 × 13.8 cm (4 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 33.6 cm (10 × 13 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2017.199.29. Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot 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.