Winter Morning on the Quai de l’Hotel-Dieu

Familiarly known as “The Cab Stand,” this was Buhot’s most famous image for many years, reproduced in virtually every book on nineteenth-century etching. It went through many states and numerous printings as well as a counterfeit reproduction. This impression is probably unique and was inscribed by the artist “état intermediaire avec retroussage” (“intermediate state with retroussage”—a selective wiping of the plate). The work is one of Buhot’s best “weather prints” and the atmosphere is almost palpably cold and wet. Like so many of Buhot’s etchings, it is a portrait of a particular place and time under particular atmospheric conditions. Its poetry lies in such specifics.

Félix Buhot
French, 1847–1898

Private collection

1876

This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted.

Etching, drypoint, aquatint, roulette, and stop-out
State eight of fifteen
Plate: 9 7/16 x 12 7/16 inches