Frontispiece for L'Illustration Nouvelle: The Burial of the Burin
Medium
etching, drypoint, and aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 41.2 x 30 cm (16 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2005.152.2
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...