Cacoletière à la Tour (Woman Riding an Ass near a Tower)
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
1826 to 1850
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.9 x 8.8 cm (3 1/2 x 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 23.4 x 30 cm (9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Daniel Bell and Pearl K. Bell
Accession Number
2006.68.2
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...