Cholera in Paris
1865
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1865
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a dark, crowded street in Paris—people in long coats, faces half-hidden, rushing past sickly figures wrapped in blankets. Chifflart made this in 1865, when cholera swept through France. He drew directly on copper plates, letting the lines stay loose and quick, like a sketch. The small size makes you lean in, as if peering into a private moment of fear. For more prints like this, look up *chiaroscuro*—the way light and shadow push emotion without color.
