Frontispiece for L'Illustration Nouvelle: The Burial of the Burin
Medium
pen and brush and black ink with gray and white gouache and white chalk heightening over charcoal on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 30.8 x 44.1 cm (12 1/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2005.152.3
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...