Art & design 2-minute look

Spend a quiet moment with a print collector.

The Print Collector — Oil on cradled panel

Daumier painted this collector around 1860 using oil on a wooden panel. The subject turns the act of looking at art into a scene that itself rewards patient attention.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago

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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of the Estate of Marshall Field

Creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879)

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