Winter in Paris, or Paris in the Snow
Medium
Etching, soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, sulphur tint, and roulette; fifth state of five
Dimensions
Plate: 9 5/16 x 13 3/4 in. (23.7 x 35 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 x 17 11/16 in. (31.7 x 45 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1917
Accession Number
17.21.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting streets 1879 Paris with-Hilaire Buhot's *Winter in Paris or Paris in the Snow a masterful print capturing the city's winter magic. Snow blankets bustling boulevards lined with horse-drawn, lively dogs, and faint glow of gas lamps evoking the everyday poetry urban life during the Belle Époque. Buhot a innovative French printmaker freezes this fleeting moment, the chill of winter with warmth of human activity. This work shines a technical tour de force employing an extraordinary mix of etching, soft-ground, drypoint, aquint, sulphur tint, roulette—the fifth and final of...
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...