Saint-Michel à L'Estre

Saint-Michel à L'Estre by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Medium

Etching, roulette, drypoint, and aquatint on laid paper; fourth state of five

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1957

Accession Number

57.609.28

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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