Liseuse à la Lampe (Woman Reading by Lamplight)
Medium
etching with scraping and burnishing in black on thin tissue paper
Dimensions
plate: 18.1 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 24 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1251
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...