Black lithograph: two men in a garden, one in a tall hat pointing toward a glass-covered hotbed with crouched figures.

The Friends: Husband Showing His Hotbed, Plate 3 from Les Amis

Two men stand in a leafy garden in this black lithograph on white paper. The man in a tall hat gestures toward a long, glass-topped hotbed where two crouched figures tend plants, while his companion in a dark coat looks on.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1845
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2198 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, Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund

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