# Cavaliers in Idle Conversation

- By: Jehan Georges Vibert (French, 1840 - 1902)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/120250)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e0dac134e3a7de97080ba298bc98fd71.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.