32. Félix Buhot
1847-1898
L'Hiver à Paris ou La Neige à Paris (Winter in Paris or The Snow in Paris)

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L'Hiver à Paris

L'Hiver à Paris ou La Neige à Paris (Winter in Paris or The Snow in Paris)

Etching, with aquatint, drypoint, roulette, etc., 1879, 237 x 344 mm., Bourcard/Goodriend 128 ix/ix. Fine impression of the final state, the dogs erased and re-etched, a total now of four, on laid paper with full margins, and bearing the red owl stamp signature in the lower right corner of the image. Possibly Buhot's best known print, not least because of the widespread dissemination of a published edition (in states iv and v) in the journal L'Art, Buhot's image of the Place Breda (which no longer exists) is the perfect evocation of a particular day, time and place, an almost Proustian recapturing of the past. Again, the marginal sketches, here limited to the left and bottom of the plate and both amusing and pitiful in turn, add to the perspective of the principal scene.