Black-and-white lithograph of a man in an apron embracing a woman holding a ladle in a dark kitchen with hanging pans.

A Return of Youth: Lithograph by Daumier, Plate 50 from Les beaux Jours de la vie

A black-and-white lithograph shows a man in a white apron and shirtsleeves seizing a woman by the arm and kissing her, while she grips a ladle and tilts her head away with a sharp expression. Cross-hatched shading fills a dark kitchen with hanging pans and a stove shelf behind them.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1845
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2195 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1845).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection

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