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Cavaliers in Idle Conversation
Jehan Georges Vibert (French, 1840 - 1902)
ca. 1880
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gray wash on rag board
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 19.5 × 11.7 cm (7 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
On a flight of steps leading through an open door two Cavaliers sit conversing idly and smoking clay pipes. The sword of the one rests, blade down, against a will in the left foreground. Vista with trees in the background through the door.
