Les Anes de La Butte-aux-Cailles (Donkeys at La Butte-aux-Cailles)
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
1873/1874
Medium
etching in black on light brown wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 7.2 x 11.7 cm (2 13/16 x 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 11.7 x 19.5 cm (4 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.253
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...