La Place Pigalle en 1878 (Place Pigalle in 1878)
Medium
etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette with burnishing in brown-black and brown-red on vellum
Dimensions
plate: 23.7 x 33.1 cm (9 5/16 x 13 1/16 in.) sheet: 31.4 x 44.3 cm (12 3/8 x 17 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
1995.54.35
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...