L'Angélus
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
c. 1876
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15 x 10.9 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/16 in.) sheet: 16.8 x 12.2 cm (6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2006.57.6
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...