La Maison Maudite (The House of the Damned)

Created through the etching process, Buhot employed loose, sketch‑like lines that convey rapid motion and instability. The artist’s handling of line work emphasizes texture—cracked walls, fragmented debris, and the contorted forms of figures—while the peripheral ghostly sketches of faces and animals add a layered, almost spectral quality to the print.

The work dates to the mid‑1880s, a period when Buhot was active in the French printmaking scene. Although specific ownership records are scarce, the etching has been catalogued in several collections of 19th‑century French graphic art, reflecting its relevance to studies of urban anxiety and the development of expressive etching techniques.