Un Débarquement en Angleterre (Landing in England)
Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint, roulette, and spirit ground on tan wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30 × 17.8 cm (11 13/16 × 7 in.) sheet: 36.3 × 23.8 cm (14 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2005.152.12
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...