Honoré Daumier

A Man Reading in a Garden (recto); Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso)

ca. 1865

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Watercolor over black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, and lithographic crayon (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and black gray wash, and lithographic crayon (verso)

Dimensions

13 5/16 x 10 5/8 in. (33.8 x 27cm)

Collection no.

29.100.199

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Honoré Daumier. A Man Reading in a Garden (recto); Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso). Honoré Daumier; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.