La Traversée (The Passage)
1879-1885
Medium
etching, drypoint, roulette, and soft-ground etching in brown on japanese laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 32.5 x 24.4 cm (12 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 40.5 x 29.7 cm (15 15/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.351
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...