Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)
Félix-Hilaire Buhot
1876/1877
Medium
etching and aquatint in black on beige laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 7.9 x 11.8 cm (3 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 17.8 x 23.4 cm (7 x 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
1995.54.34
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...