The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant)
1860–98
Medium
Etching and aquatint; first state of two
Dimensions
Plate: 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (14.6 x 9.8 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (18.7 x 11.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.10
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...