Head of a Man
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
1826 to 1850
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15 x 17.2 cm (5 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.) (irregular)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Colles Baxter Larkin
Accession Number
2007.103.2
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...