Winter Morning on the Quays
1860–98
Medium
Etching on laid paper; second state of seven
Dimensions
Plate: 10 7/16 x 13 9/16 in. (26.5 x 34.5 cm) Sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 5/8 in. (31.3 x 44.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.7
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...