Lady of the Swans
Medium
Drypoint; third state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/8 x 7 1/16 in. (13 x 18 cm) Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (24.7 x 31.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.15.6
Tags
WomenSwans
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...