Matinée d'hiver sur les quais

This etching is a reworking of an earlier composition known as 'The Cabstand', which for many years, was Buhot’s most famous image, and reproduced in virtually every book on nineteenth-century etching. After the success of the first print, Buhot decided to rework the composition for a second etching: 'Matinée d’hiver sur le quais', that tends to be darker and more atmospheric than the earlier efforts. In addition to compressing spatial relationships, Buhot populated the foreground with street cleaners, thereby adding local colour. The smoke curling up from huge smokestacks in the background suggests industrial Paris.