The Seascape Painter (Le Peintre de marine)
1860–98
Medium
Etching, drypoint and aquatint on darkened paper; third state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (13 x 21 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 x 13 7/16 in. (22.2 x 34.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.15
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...