Winter in Paris, or Snow in Paris
Medium
Etching, roulette, aquatint, sulphur tint, drypoint, and soft-ground etching; third state of nine
Dimensions
Plate: 9 5/16 x 13 3/4 in. (23.7 x 35 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 x 15 3/16 in. (27 x 38.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Edna H. Sachs, 1964
Accession Number
64.695.3
Tags
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...