The image displays a three-quarter length portrait of a person in profile view, with their arms crossed. The person has facial hair, wearing a high top hat that covers part of the forehead. They are dressed in a dark suit jacket and have a cigar in their mouth. The background is a textured gray surface.
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Man in Top Hat, Smoking a Cigar

Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858 - 1933)

late 19th century

Medium
graphite with scratched highlights on blue-gray prepared wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 13.02 × 8.89 cm (5 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Bessie Potter Vonnoh Keyes, wife of the artist, 1955)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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