Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
1876/1877
Medium
etching and aquatint in black on beige laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.1 x 12 cm (3 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 18.7 x 24.6 cm (7 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.19
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...