La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)
1886/1890
Medium
heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, and spit bite, aquatint, and burnsihing in black (central plate) and gray-green (margin plate) on heavy wove light green paper
Dimensions
plate (outer): 29.6 x 39.9 cm (11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.) plate (inner): 22.5 x 29.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 38 x 55.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.12
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...