Bronze Toad
Medium
etching, aquatint, and drypoint on Chinese, gold-flecked yellow paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.5 × 15.4 cm (8 7/16 × 6 1/16 in.) sheet: 34.6 × 21.7 cm (13 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.67.1
About the Artist
Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1847–1898
Félix-Hilaire Buhot was born on July 9, 1847, in Valognes, a small town in Normandy, France, into a modest family—his father a wine merchant and his mother a seller of women's clothes. Orphaned by age seven after losing both parents and his maternal grandmother, he was raised by relatives, including a godfather, and received an early introduction to drawing from his adopted mother's nephew. In 186...