La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)
1886/1890
Medium
heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.4 x 29.6 cm (8 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 28.4 x 42.8 cm (11 3/16 x 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1257
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...