Large Thatched Cottages (Les Grandes Chaumières)
1860–98
Medium
Etching, drypoint, aquatint, and roulette; fourth state of six
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/2 x 10 13/16 in. (14 x 27.4 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (31.5 x 44.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.14
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...