
Caricature of a Scholar, Pencil Drawing
A pencil caricature of a man in a long double-breasted coat and peaked cap, shown in profile with an exaggerated pointed nose and a flat folder tucked under one arm. Light graphite shading defines the coat folds and a faint step at lower left, on a pale sheet with a handwritten inscription below.
- Artist
- A. Lingoste
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Graphite, with brush and pale brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on ivory wove paper, perimeter mounted on tan wove paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2716 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1927).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection