Japanese Baptism
1860–98
Medium
Etching, aquatint, sulphur tint, spirit ground, lift ground, and stop-out; first state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 8 1/2 x 5 9/16 in. (21.6 x 14.2 cm) Sheet: 12 x 8 11/16 in. (30.5 x 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.12
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...