Midnight Revel (Le Réveillon)
second half 19th century
Medium
Etching, roulette, aquatint, drypoint, burnishing, and stop-out; third state of four
Dimensions
Plate: 6 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. (16.3 x 8.8 cm) Sheet: 7 15/16 x 5 5/16 in. (20.1 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.2403
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...