The drawing appears to be one of several studies for the painting on which the related print is based. This is typical of Buhot’s constant movement of compositional ideas from one medium to another with accompanying changes of format and detail. It…
The first part of the title refers to a section of poems in Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal; the second part is simply descriptive. The etching is based on a painting of 1876 and is realized in reverse. The cab is engulfed in darkness, and…