L'Hiver à Paris (Winter in Paris)
Medium
etching, aquatint, spit-bite etching, soft-ground etching, drypoint, and scraping in black on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.6 x 34.4 cm (9 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.) sheet: 30.3 x 43.9 cm (11 15/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.410
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...