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Seated Man and Woman
Célestin François Nanteuil (French, 1813–1873)
c. 1830–60
- Medium
- pen and brown ink, watercolor and scoring (recto), pen and brown ink (verso) on medium weight wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.8 x 19.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This drawing shows Célestin Nanteuil’s accomplishments as both a fine artist and illustrator. On one side, a couple converses, depicted in dense areas of ink—a practice Nanteuil learned from his friend, the author and artist Victor Hugo. Nanteuil scratched into these dark areas to create highlights. The back of the sheet features casually sketched vignettes, probably designed to accompany text in a book.
