Fishermen (Pêcheurs de Valech)
19th century
Medium
Etching; only state
Dimensions
Plate: 2 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (6 x 10.5 cm) Sheet: 2 5/8 x 4 7/16 in. (6.7 x 11.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.514
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...