Winter in Paris

Description

Félix Buhot’s cityscapes explore society and the visual effects of weather. Drawing his street in Montmartre, Paris, Buhot established a technique in which sketchy images around the margins refer to elements of the main composition. These innovative prints often employed multiple media and many variant states. In Winter in Paris, Buhot used his “symphonic margin” to highlight the death of buggy-pulling horses from exposure to the city’s cold. In National Holiday on the Boulevard Clichy, the margins are filled with sketches of the street festival, including a top hat, carriage, and a variety of figures both nude and clothed.

Winter in Paris

Félix Hilaire Buhot

1879

Accession Number

186637

Medium

Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 23.6 × 34.8 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 28.1 × 39 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Vera Berdich