Grands Chasseurs--Le Cerf est prêt
Félix Vallotton
1903
Medium
black crayon and brush over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25 x 19.7 cm (9 13/16 x 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 39.8 x 22.6 cm (15 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
2010.122.2
About the Artist
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, into a comfortable middle-class family, and moved to Paris in 1882 to enroll at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the portrait painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre and the history painter Gustave Boulanger. Paris would remain his home for the rest of his life, and he became a French citizen in 1900 following his marriage to the art ...