The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant)
1860–98
Medium
Etching and aquatint; first state of two
Dimensions
Plate: 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (14.6 x 9.8 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (18.7 x 11.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.10
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...