Environs de Gravesend
Medium
etching with drypoint and aquatint on japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 26.8 x 34.7 cm (10 9/16 x 13 11/16 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 42.8 cm (12 1/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Penn Lupovich
Accession Number
2009.86.1
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...