La Falaise: Baie de Saint-Malo (The Cliff: Saint-Malo Bay)
1886/1890
Medium
heliogravure, etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint in gray-green (central plate) and black (margin plate) on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.7 x 35.7 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.) sheet: 35 x 48.3 cm (13 3/4 x 19 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
1995.54.56
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...