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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Man Smoking
    Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. Man Smoking, 1800s. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011763

    Man Smoking

    by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

    Also known as: Portrait of a Man Smoking

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    signed, lower right, in black chalk: EM[in ligature]eissonier / [a son frère?] Edouard ; SECONDARY SUPPORT (now removed and lost) (according to note on departmental catalog sheet): lower left, in graphite: 6 [circled] (visible in photgraph) ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: 210 (visible in photgraph)

    Provenance

    [Thomas Coville, Inc.]

    Exhibition history

    The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
    Date
    1800s
    Medium
    black chalk and graphite, with stumping, heightened with white gouache?
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 27.8 x 24.2 cm (10 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
    Accession no.
    1983.207

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