The Seascape Painter (Le Peintre de marine)

The Seascape Painter (Le Peintre de marine) by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

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 · 18471898

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...

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