Art, literature & history
Le Château des hiboux (Castle of the Owls)
1877-1887
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette in black on 18th-century cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.3 x 18 cm (4 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 15.5 x 21.2 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.54.54
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. Le Château des hiboux (Castle of the Owls). 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,_Le_Ch%C3%A2teau_des_hiboux_(Castle_of_the_Owls),_1877-1887,_NGA_93137.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Le Château des hiboux (Castle of the Owls) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1877-1887.
Medium: etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette in black on 18th-century cream laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.3 x 18 cm (4 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 15.5 x 21.2 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.54.54. 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.