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Man Smoking, 1800s. black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache?.
black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache? · Sheet: 27.8 x 24.2 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Man Smoking
- Artist
- Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache?
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.8 x 24.2 cm (10 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1815–1891
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.


