Une Matinée d'autommne (Autumn Afternoon)
Medium
etching, aquatint and drypoint on chinese paper
Dimensions
plate: 10.6 × 16.8 cm (4 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 21 × 32.5 cm (8 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection
Accession Number
2016.107.1
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...