Figures on Top of a Hill, Overlooking the Sea
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
1826 to 1850
Medium
graphite on two sheets of wove paper (consecutive sketchbook pages)
Dimensions
sheet: 10.2 x 31.8 cm (4 x 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Colles Baxter Larkin
Accession Number
2007.103.1.a
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...