Winter Morning on the Quays
1860–98
Medium
Etching, roulette, aquatint, drypoint, and sandpaper ground; sixth of seven states
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 x 13 7/8 in. (25 x 35.2 cm) Sheet: 13 5/16 x 15 15/16 in. (33.8 x 40.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.8
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...