Japonisme
Medium
portfolio of 10 etchings on Japan paper encased in two printed chemises made of heavy brown wove paper; each chemise has an etching printed on the recto and verso, the outer in black ink, the inner in red ink
Dimensions
sheet (each roughly): 35.5 x 26 cm (14 x 10 1/4 inches) inner chemise: 54 x 37.5 cm (21 1/8 x 14 5/16 inches) outer chemise: 58 x 40.4 cm (22 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.90.1
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...