The Castle of Owls
19th century
Medium
Drypoint and aquatint; third or fourth state of four
Dimensions
Plate: 4 7/16 x 7 in. (11.3 x 17.8 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (21.5 x 28.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.513
Tags
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...