La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne
Medium
etching, aquatint, lift-ground aquatint, drypoint, roulette, and burnishing in brown-black on turpentine soaked paper
Dimensions
plate: 34 x 44.9 cm (13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.) sheet: 39.2 x 49.9 cm (15 7/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.412
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...