Frontispiece for "Les Salles d'Estampes"
Medium
etching, aquatint, drypoint, and stipple in brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.4 × 15 cm (8 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 33.4 × 21.4 cm (13 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift from the Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2017.199.33
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...