Reverie

Achille Devéria

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white image of a woman sitting at a table wearing a white dress with puffy sleeves. The woman's hair is tied up in buns on either side of her head, she rests her right elbow on the table and her head on her right hand. The woman holds a book in her left hand. The table has a dark tablecloth. There is a window on the left side of the image with multiple square panes. The wall behind the table has a patterned wallpaper. There is a curtain on the right side of the image. The image has a white border with a thin black line inside. The artist's name and title of image are at the bottom, written in French.