Man Smoking
1800s
Ernest Meissonier
Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
Drawings
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
- Maker/Artist
- Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted 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.)
- Inscribed
- 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)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1983.207
- Credit Line
- Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1983, French Drawings from the Collection, CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).<br>CMA (listed in file of "West Wing Label Copy, ordered June 20, 1986").<br>CMA, Year in Review for 1983 (Feb. 22-Apr. 8, 1984), cma Bulletin 71 (1984), p. 74 no. 175, illus.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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