Funeral Procession on the Boulevard de Clichy
Medium
color etching, drypoint, aquatint, roulette, and soft-ground etching, over heliogravure, hand-touched in watercolor and gold on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30 x 39.7 cm (11 13/16 x 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2005.152.10
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...