The Marine Painter (Le Peintre de Marine)
1826 to 1850
Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint, stop-out, sandpaper ground, and spit bite in blue-black and black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.1 × 20.7 cm (5 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 22.9 × 36 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.15
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...