Le Couvre-feu (1er planche) (The Curfew, 1st plate)
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.7 × 9.9 cm (3 7/16 × 3 7/8 in.) sheet: 14.2 × 19.7 cm (5 9/16 × 7 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift from the Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2017.199.36
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...