Frontispiece for "Zigzags d'un Curieux, d'Octave Uzanne"
Medium
etching in black on beige japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.8 x 16.8 cm (9 x 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.8 x 21.5 cm (11 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.14
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...