Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)

Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers) by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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

Print

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 · 18471898

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...

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