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The Convent, Avenue of the Observatory, c. 1870. Etching on cream laid paper.
Etching on cream laid paper · Image: 13.2 × 15.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Convent, Avenue of the Observatory
- Artist
- Félix Hilaire Buhot French, 1847-1898
- Date
- c. 1870
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.2 × 15.5 cm (5 1/4 × 6 1/8 in.); Plate: 14.7 × 17.5 cm (5 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 21 × 27.9 cm (8 5/16 × 11 in.)
- Credit line
- Albert H. Wolf 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.