Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)
1876/1877
Medium
etching and aquatint with scraping and burnishing in black on light blue laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8 x 11.9 cm (3 1/8 x 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 9.5 x 12.6 cm (3 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1247
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...