The Owl's Château

1867–98

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching, sulphur tint, roulette, drypoint , and aquatint; fourth and final state
Dimensions: Plate: 4 7/16 x 7 1/16 in. (11.2 x 18 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (20.7 x 29.8 cm)
Collection no.: 21.16.20
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Félix-Hilaire Buhot. The Owl's Château. Félix-Hilaire Buhot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of David Keppel, 1921. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Owl's Château — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1867–98.

Medium: Etching, sulphur tint, roulette, drypoint , and aquatint; fourth and final state. Dimensions: Plate: 4 7/16 x 7 1/16 in. (11.2 x 18 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (20.7 x 29.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of David Keppel, 1921.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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