Les Grandes Chaumières
Medium
etching and drypoint on antique laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.1 x 27.5 cm (5 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 25.1 x 37.8 cm (9 7/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Daniel Bell and Pearl K. Bell
Accession Number
2006.68.54
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...