Ex Libris with a Butterfly and Dragonfly
Medium
etching, drypoint, spirit ground, and aquatint in purple ink on Japanese paper
Dimensions
plate: 11.1 × 13.8 cm (4 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 33.6 cm (10 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2017.199.29
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...