Embarcadere à Trouville (Wharf at Trouville)
Medium
etching and drypoint on japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.4 × 27.3 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.) sheet: 26.5 × 39.5 cm (10 7/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2013.175.1
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...