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A Young Street Urchin, 1874. Etching on cream laid paper.
Etching on cream laid paper · Image/plate: 9.7 × 5.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Young Street Urchin
- Artist
- Félix Hilaire Buhot French, 1847-1898
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 9.7 × 5.1 cm (3 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.); Sheet: 13.2 × 8.4 cm (5 1/4 × 3 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Harold R. Flesch Memorial Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1847–1898
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




