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A stooped, heavyset man in a long coat and wide-brimmed hat lifts a hand to his brow, a watering can in his other hand beside a tall stalk of hollyhocks. He stands in a garden with a low wall and distant trees behind him, the whole scene drawn in lithographic line and tone. The caption below, in French, complains about watering flowers in the heat.
Look closer: A small signed monogram appears in the lower right of the sheet near the ground.
- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
- Date
- December 29, 1845
- Medium
- Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 2527 × 3634 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1845).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957