Une Vieux Chantier à Rochester
Medium
etching, drypoint, and aquatint in brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 12 x 28 cm (4 3/4 x 11 in.) sheet: 26.7 x 37 cm (10 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Daniel Bell and Pearl K. Bell
Accession Number
2006.68.77
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...