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Pen and ink drawing with gray wash of tall trees and a winding path through a shadowed wood.

Woods with a Sleeping Man

A tall, vertical drawing of a wooded path in pen and ink with gray wash. Tall trunks with dense, hatched foliage rise on the left and center, and a faint pale track winds toward the lower foreground past a low mound of ground.

Artist
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette
Date
ca. 1850
Medium
Pen and ink on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
754 × 1280 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1855).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum