Black and white lithograph of two cloaked figures in the foreground, a crowd below a comet streaking across a night sky over city rooftops.

Daumier, Comet Lithograph from Actualités, Plate 573 (1858)

A lithograph shows two cloaked figures in the foreground, a man with a bald head and a woman in a hooded shawl, while a crowd on the left gazes up at a streaking comet over rooftops. Caption text below reads in French, and the plate number 573 appears at upper right.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: October 30, 1858
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1306 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1858).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

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