Minneapolis Institute of Art

Winter Morning on the Quay of the Hôtel Dieu [Hospital]

Félix Buhot

Date

1876

Medium

Etching, drypoint, and roulette printed with plate tone on pale green paper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Félix Buhot has positioned us in front of the Hôtel Dieu Hospital so that we look toward the cab stand, where carriages patiently await customers. It’s a soggy day: the rigs, passersby, and lampposts are reflected on the wet pavement. Buhot relished atmospheric, moody scenes like this. Buhot experimented constantly, and here he left a translucent layer of ink on the plate and printed on pale green paper to emphasize the damp chill of a gloomy morning. France, Europe

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