Winter in Paris
Medium
Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 23.6 × 34.8 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 28.1 × 39 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
186637
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Félix Buhot’s cityscapes explore society and the visual effects of weather. Drawing his street in Montmartre, Paris, Buhot established a technique in which sketchy images around the margins refer to elements of the main composition. These innovative prints often employed multiple media and many variant states. In Winter in Paris, Buhot used his “symphonic margin” to highlight the death of buggy-pulling horses from exposure to the city’s cold. In National Holiday on the Boulevard Clichy, the marg...