The Little Marine -- Souvenir of Medway
Medium
Etching; prior to first state (?) of six
Dimensions
Plate: 6 1/2 x 8 11/16 in. (16.5 x 22 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 x 17 11/16 in. (31.5 x 45 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.18
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...