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National Holiday, c. 1878. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Image: 23.2 × 14.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- National Holiday
- Artist
- Félix Hilaire Buhot French, 1847-1898
- Date
- c. 1878
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.2 × 14.2 cm (9 3/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Plate: 31.5 × 23.8 cm (12 7/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 25.5 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1847–1898
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.