Art, literature & history
Le Hibou (The Owl)
1883
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, aquatint, and saltground, with burnishing and roulette in black and brown ink on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 45.4 × 32.4 cm (17 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.) sheet: 63 × 44.8 cm (24 13/16 × 17 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2017.199.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. Le Hibou (The Owl). Félix-Hilaire Buhot; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Le Hibou (The Owl) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1883.
Medium: etching, drypoint, aquatint, and saltground, with burnishing and roulette in black and brown ink on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 45.4 × 32.4 cm (17 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.) sheet: 63 × 44.8 cm (24 13/16 × 17 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2017.199.4. Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the Fiftieth 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.