Un Débarquement en Angleterre (Landing in England)
Medium
etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), roulette, and burnishing in black on oatmeal paper
Dimensions
sheet: 34.7 x 21.7 cm (13 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1248
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...