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Document identity
localId
151366
label
Man Smoking
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
151366
contentType
drawing
title
Man Smoking
date
1800s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79934765
creators
1661
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 27.8 x 24.2 cm (10 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1983.207
Source extras
tec
black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache?
tombstone
Man Smoking, 1800s. Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891). Black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache?; sheet: 27.8 x 24.2 cm (10 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund, 1983.207
supportMaterials
description
two sheets (joined) of beige(1) laid paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in black chalk: EM[in ligature]eissonier / [a son frère?] Edouard ; SECONDARY SUPPORT (now removed and lost) (according to note on departmental catalog sheet): lower left, in graphite: 6 [circled] (visible in photgraph) ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: 210 (visible in photgraph)
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 74, no. 175
creditline
Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 07:49:04.574000
sourceId
151366
dept
Drawings
coll
DR - French
med
black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache?
creatorTags
male
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image_url
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
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photo
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