Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
Property from a Private New York Collection
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)

Après le bain

Details
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
Après le bain
signed with initials 'h D.' (lower left)
oil on panel
6 ½ x 8 ½ in. (15.9 x 21.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1846-1848
Provenance
(possibly) G. Arosa, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 February 1878, lot 26.
(possibly) Gaston-Alexandre Camentron, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 June 1900, lot 40.
Oskar Schmitz, Dresden (acquired at the above sale).
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the estate of the above, 1936).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, January 1955.
Literature
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1908, p. 19, no. 279 (illustrated, pl. 63; titled Avant le bain and with incorrect support and inverted dimensions).
K. Scheffler, "Die Sammlung Oscar Schmitz im Dresden," Kunst und Künstler, Berlin, 1920-1921, vol. XIX, p. 188.
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, p. 110, no. 279 (illustrated; titled Homme se déshabillant sous un arbre).
M. Dormoy, "La Collection Schmitz à Dresde," L'amour de l'art, no. 7, October 1926, p. 340 (titled La Baigneuse).
E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, New York, 1927, p. 48, no. 61b (illustrated, pl. 61).
J. Lassaigne, Daumier, Paris, 1938, p. 167, (illustrated, p. 107; with incorrect support).
P. Bird, "Daumier and Delacroix in Summer Exhibit," The Art Digest, vol. 25, 15 May 1951, p. 16.
C. Schweicher, Daumier, Paris, 1953 (illustrated, pl. 33; with incorrect support).
J. Adhémar, Honoré Daumier, Paris, 1954, p. 120, (illustrated, pl. 68; dated circa 1852 and with incorrect support).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, New York, 1968, vol. I, p. 59, no. I-15 (illustrated, pl. 45; with incorrect support).
G. Mandel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier, Paris, 1972, p. 89, no. 18 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Dresden, Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Sammlung Oskar Schmitz, 1908 or 1921.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Sammlung Oskar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1921.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Sammlung Oskar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1932, p. 5, no. 12.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Französische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May-August 1933, no. 18.
Paris, Wildenstein et Cie., The Oscar Schmitz Collection: Masterpieces of French Painting of the Nineteenth Century, 1936, p. 46, no. 17 (illustrated, p. 47; with incorrect support).
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Paintings and Drawings by Delacroix and Daumier, May-September 1951, no. 22.

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