Black and buff lithograph of two men in period clothing towing a small boat with a rope across shallow water toward a distant shore.

A Difficult Navigation, Daumier lithograph of two men towing a boat

A lithograph in black on buff paper shows two men straining at a rope to tow a small boat across shallow water. The taller figure in a cap pulls forward while the other, bent low, hauls with his back toward the viewer, and a distant shoreline with trees fades into the haze.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1843
Medium: Lithograph in black on buff wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1296 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1843).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund

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