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, and spit bite, aquatint, and burnsihing in black (central plate) and gray-green (margin plate) on heavy wove light green paper
- Dimensions
- plate (outer): 29.6 x 39.9 cm (11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.) plate (inner): 22.5 x 29.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 38 x 55.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.12
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay). Félix-Hilaire Buhot; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). 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, and spit bite, aquatint, and burnsihing in black (central plate) and gray-green (margin plate) on heavy wove light green paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate (outer): 29.6 x 39.9 cm (11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.) plate (inner): 22.5 x 29.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 38 x 55.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.12. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
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.