Feuillets d'album (Donkey Sketch)
Medium
etching on japanese paper
Dimensions
sheet: 24 x 32 cm (9 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.) plate: 22 x 27.2 cm (8 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2005.152.1
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...