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Sketch for a Grasset

Félix Buhot19th century

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: Sketch for a Grasset
  • Creator: Félix Hilaire Buhot
  • Date Created: 19th century
  • Subject Keywords: sketches
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in unidentified hand on mount: “Drawing to illustrate the ‘grasset’ or lamp used by the Norman peasantry. This sketch was made to explain a similar one by Millet which was drawn by him upon a proof of his woodcut, the Peasant Digging. Lebrun B. 30 HM has this proof.”
  • Object Type: Drawings, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
  • Materials & Techniques: Pencil drawing on white wove paper
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Dimensions: 1898
  • Bibliography: H.M. 68
  • Associated People: Created by Félix Hilaire Buhot (French, 1847-1898)
  • Accession Number: 1947.D1.5
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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