Small Vertical Landscape
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 9.1 × 5.8 cm (3 5/8 × 2 5/16 in.); Plate: 9.8 × 6.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 22.6 cm (12 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41604
Art Historical Context
Félix Hilaire Buhot'sSmall Vertical Landscape* is a delicate etching on ivory laid paper, capturing the artist's mastery of 19th-century French print. Though undated, this intimate work exemplifies Buhot's role in the Etching Revival, a movement that breathed new life into the medium during the late 1800s. Buhot (1841–1898), a innovative etcher and painter, often layered techniques like drypoint and soft-ground etching to create richly textured scenes, blending realism with poetic whimsy. Here, the vertical format—measuring just 9.1 × 5.8 cm for the image—invites viewers into a compact, toweri...