La Fete Nationale (Matinée de Fete 30 June 1878) (National Holiday 30 June 1878)
Medium
etching, roulette, and softground on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 31.2 × 23.5 cm (12 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 36.3 × 25.4 cm (14 5/16 × 10 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift from the Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
Accession Number
2017.199.32
Rights
Public Domain
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...