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

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

Honoré Daumier (French) (1808-1879)

Movement

Realism

Date

c. 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

33.8 × 27 cm

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Rights

Public domain

Photograph

Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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