# Seated Man and Woman

- By: Célestin François Nanteuil (French, 1813–1873)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1064)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2018.1064/2018.1064_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.