Winter Morning on the Quai de l'Hôtel-Dieu (Cabstand)

Winter Morning on the Quai de l'Hôtel-Dieu (Cabstand) by Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Medium

Etching, aquatint, drypoint, stop-out, and roulette; fourteenth of fifteen states

Dimensions

Plate: 9 3/16 x 12 5/8 in. (23.4 x 32 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 3/16 in. (31.8 x 41.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1963

Accession Number

63.706.129

About the Artist

Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 18471898

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...

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