Lithograph of a man in a nightcap watering flowers from a window box beside a woman, with potted plants and caption text below.

A Model Marriage: Cultivating Virtue and Carnations (Daumier, 1846)

A black-and-white lithograph shows a stout couple leaning from a window framed by potted plants, the man in a nightcap pouring from a watering can over flowerpots. Caption text and the series title Les Bons Bourgeois appear above and below the scene, with the plate number in the upper right.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1846
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2200 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1846).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund

19th century 1840s 1846 caricature window lithograph satirical print daumier potted plant nightcap black and white