The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant)

1860–98

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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)
Collection no.: 21.16.10
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Félix-Hilaire Buhot. The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant). Félix-Hilaire Buhot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of David Keppel, 1921. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Maid Sewing (Bonne Femme Cousant) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 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).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of David Keppel, 1921.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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