Les Petites Chaumieres
Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette
Dimensions
plate: 10.1 x 13.9 cm (4 x 5 1/2 in.) sheet: 16.4 x 20.5 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Penn Lupovich in memory of Rita Natanson Lupovich
Accession Number
2009.86.2
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...