A young and older man, both with pale skin, stand next to each other in shadowy room looking at a piece of white paper held by the older man in this vertical painting. Light from the upper left falls across the men, and they take up most of the height of the composition. The paper is held by a balding, elderly man at the center of the painting. He wears a knee-length, dark brown jacket and trousers. His has a gray beard and hair, and thin black lines delineate his brows and trace the creases on his face. A younger man standing to our left has short black hair and ruddy skin. He tilts his…
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Advice to a Young Artist

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)

1865/1868

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 41.3 x 33 cm (16 1/4 x 13 in.) ; framed: 65.7 x 57.5 cm (25 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Duncan Phillips
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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