# Meditation

- By: Herman Hartwich (born New York City 1853-died Munich, Germany 1926)
- Date: 1885
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.4 x 22.2 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Emily Dorothy Ammann
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=10044)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d98cedad084e1e4cc91f4e0a547109e0.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

According to an inscription, this painting shows a monkey named Chico that lived in Herman Hartwich's studio. The artist had just punished him for behaving badly, which probably explains the creature's downcast expression. The rough outlines and unfinished edges suggest that Hartwich painted this piece quickly, perhaps because the monkey did not stay still for very long.