Les Esprits des Villes Mortes (Spirits from the Cities of the Dead)
Medium
etching, roulette, drypoint, lift ground, aquatint, scraping and burnishing on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 28.8 x 39 cm (11 5/16 x 15 3/8 in.) plate: 29.2 x 39.1 cm (11 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.) sheet: 36.9 x 54.7 cm (14 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1262
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...