Jean-Baptiste Fauvelet
Man Smoking
1861
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink and wash over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on paper, Sheet: 176 x 132 mm. (17.6 x 13.2 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.13351
Man in 18th-century dress (tricorner hat, knee-length breeches, etc.), sitting at a table smoking a pipe.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Maryland Institute, Baltimore, 'Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection', 1911, p. 51, no. 247 [as The Smoker].
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, ink, 'Fauvelet'.
