Black and white lithograph of a man in a nightcap leaning over a chair by a fireplace, with bottles on the mantel and a framed picture on the wall.

General Mortier, the Evening Before the Battle of Waterloo

A man in a tall pointed nightcap and striped nightshirt leans over the back of a rush-seated chair in a dim room beside a glowing fireplace. Bottles stand on the mantel and a framed picture hangs on the wall, all rendered in black lithographic tones on ivory paper, with a printed caption below.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1835
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1308 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1835).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection

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