The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

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

Honoré Daumier

Date

ca. 1865

Medium

Watercolor over black chalk, with pen and ink, brush and wash, and lithographic crayon. Verso: pen and brown ink, black gray wash, and lithographic crayon

Dimensions

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

Object type

Drawing

Classification

Drawings

Object number

29.100.199

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

The Met object ID 333914. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.