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