Art, literature & history
Spirits of Dead Cities (Les Esprits des Villes Mortes)
1860–98
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching, roulette, and drypoint; second state of six
- Dimensions
- Plate: 11 5/16 x 15 3/8 in. (28.8 x 39 cm) Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 13/16 in. (31 x 45.3 cm)
- Collection no.
- 21.16.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix-Hilaire Buhot. Spirits of Dead Cities (Les Esprits des Villes Mortes). 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
Spirits of Dead Cities (Les Esprits des Villes Mortes) — Félix-Hilaire Buhot. 1860–98.
Medium: Etching, roulette, and drypoint; second state of six. Dimensions: Plate: 11 5/16 x 15 3/8 in. (28.8 x 39 cm) Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 13/16 in. (31 x 45.3 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.