Le Couvre-Feu (The Curfew) [recto]
1874/1875
![Le Couvre-Feu (The Curfew) [recto] by Félix-Hilaire Buhot](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/le-couvre-feu-the-curfew-recto-nga-79352.webp)
Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint, and burnishing in black on light blue wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.1 x 10 cm (3 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.) sheet: 11.3 x 14.4 cm (4 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.9.a
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...