Le Château des hiboux (Castle of the Owls)
1877-1887
Medium
etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette, stop-out, sulphur tint, and crayon stop-out in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 20 × 35.7 cm (7 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.) sheet: 11.3 × 18.1 cm (4 7/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2005.152.5
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...