Place Pigalle in 1878
1860–98
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and stop-out; third (?) state of six
Dimensions
Plate: 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 in. (25.8 x 34.3 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in. (27.5 x 36 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.9
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...