Medium:Black chalk and watercolor on laid paper (recto); graphite and black chalk (verso)
Dimensions:14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in. (36.5 x 25.5cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1927
Object Number:27.152.2
Signature: Lower right: "h.D."
Paul Bureau; Vendor: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. "Exposition Daumier, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris," 1921.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York," October 16, 1930–November 23, 1930.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Daumier, 1808-1879," 1937.
Cambridge, Mass. Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Seventy Master Drawings (A loan exhibition arranged in honor of Professor Paul J. Sachs on the occasion of his seventieth birthday)," November 27, 1948–January 6, 1949.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art Treasures of the Metropolitan," November 7, 1952–September 7, 1953.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Classicism and Romanticism. French Drawings and Prints," September 15–November 1, 1970.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Daumier Drawings," February 26–May 2, 1993.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. "Honore Daumier, 1808-1879," June 11, 1999–September 6, 1999.
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Honore Daumier, 1808-1879," October 5, 1999–January 3, 2000.
Phillips Collection. "Honore Daumier, 1808-1879," February 19, 2000–May 14, 2000.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 20, 2008–January 11, 2009.
Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin. ""Daumier ist ungeheuer!" (Max Liebermann): Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Bronzen von Honoré Daumier," March 2, 2013–June 2, 2013.
Maison 547 and 538(verso) Ives/Stuffmann 116
Arsène Alexandre Honoré Daumier, l'homme et l'oeuvre. Paris, 1888, p. 376.
Erich Klossowski Honoré Daumier. Munich, 1923, cat. no. 208.
"Vente de la collection Paul Bureau." Beaux Arts. vol. 5, June 1, 1927, pp. 175-176, ill.
Bryson Burroughs "Two drawings by Daumier." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 22, New York, 1927, pp. 291-292, 289, ill.
Eduard Fuchs Der Maler Daumier. 1927, cat. no. 258a, fig. no. pl. 258a, p. 58, ill.
Paul Bureau Collection Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 20, 1927, première vente. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Paris, May 20, 1927, cat. no. 79, p. 62, ill.
Charles Sterling, Anatole de Monzie, Claude Roger-Marx Daumier: Peintures, aquarelles, dessins. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1934, cat. no. 106, fig. no. pl. 106, p. 113, ill.
Elise Van Hook, Henri Marceau, David Rosen, Claude Roger-Marx Daumier, 1808-1879. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1937, cat. no. 32, fig. no. pl. 32, p. 33, ill.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, also N.S., no. 39., cat. no. 42 (vol.2), fig. no. 42, ill.
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums Seventy Master Drawings: A Loan Exhibition Arranged in Honor of Professor Paul J. Sachs on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday Exh. cat., Harvar Art Museums, Cambridge (November 27, 1948 - January 6, 1949). Cambridge, 1948, cat. no. 62.
One Hundred Master Drawings. To accompany "Seventy master drawings," a loan exhibition at the Fogg Museum of Art, Nov. 1948-Jan. 1949, held on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Paul J. Sachs, and 30 additional drawings from the museum's collections
Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge. edited by Agnes Mongan, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1949, p. 170, ill.
Regina Shoolman, Charles E. Slatkin Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. Oxford University Press, New York, 1950, fig. no. pl. 83, p. 146, ill.
Art Treasures of the Metropolitan: A Selection from the European and Asiatic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1952, cat. no. 67, fig. no. 67, pp. 73, 223, ill.
Jean Adhémar Daumier Dessins et Aquarelles. Paris, [1954], cat. no. 50, pp. 29, 50, ill.
De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-D'Oeuvre des Collections Américaines Exh. cat., 20 April - 5 June. Musée de l'Orangerie , Paris, Paris, 1955, cat. no. 66, fig. no. pl. 29, ill.
"MMA Bulletin" French Drawings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 17, no. 6, New York, February 1959, p. 168, ill.
Daniel M. Mendelowitz Drawing. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1967, fig. no. 15-11, pp. 349, 351, ill.
K. E. Maison Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings. 2 vols., New York, 1968, Mentioned under nos. 544, 546, cat. no. 547, 538, fig. no. pl. 195, pp. 183, 179, ill.
Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives, Jacob Bean Classicism and Romanticism: French Drawings and Prints, 1800-1860. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, cat. no. 11, p. 2.
Daumier's Universe. 1977, p. 51, ill.
Honoré Daumier 1808-1879.. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Washington, 1979, cat. no. 90, ill.
Roger Passeron Daumier témoin de son temps. Fribourg, 1979, fig. no. ill. 155, pp. 218-220, 222, ill.
Nicholas Wadley Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. Laurence King Publishers, London, 1991, cat. no. 105b, p. 292.
Colta Ives, Martin Sonnabend, Margret Stuffmann, Klaus Herding, Judith Wechsler Daumier Drawings. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, cat. no. 116, fig. no. 134, pp. 231, 226, ill.
Claude Keisch, Max Liebermann Haus "Daumier ist ungeheuer!" (Max Liebermann): Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Bronzen von Honoré Daumier. Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Nicolai, Berlin, 2013, cat. no. 8.06 and 8.09 (verso), fig. no. 4 (p. 13), pp. 13, 36-37, n. 31, 190-192, 194, 219, ill.
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