PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DIANA METCALF STAINOW
HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Six têtes (Six caricatures—L'evènement)
Details
HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Six têtes (Six caricatures—L'evènement)
signed with initials 'h.D.' (lower left)
watercolor, brush and pen and India ink and black Conté crayon on paper
3 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (8 x 20 cm.)
Six têtes (Six caricatures—L'evènement)
signed with initials 'h.D.' (lower left)
watercolor, brush and pen and India ink and black Conté crayon on paper
3 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (8 x 20 cm.)
Provenance
Auguste-Armand René de Donato Donatis, Paris (circa 1875).
Alfred Louis Lebeuf de Montgermont, Paris; Estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17 June 1919, lot 59.
B. Mancini, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Mnazakan Pridonoff, Paris.
Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York (by 1934).
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, June 1938).
Robert Treat Paine II, Boston (acquired from the above, December 1938).
By descent from the above to the late owner, by January 1966.
Alfred Louis Lebeuf de Montgermont, Paris; Estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17 June 1919, lot 59.
B. Mancini, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Mnazakan Pridonoff, Paris.
Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York (by 1934).
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, June 1938).
Robert Treat Paine II, Boston (acquired from the above, December 1938).
By descent from the above to the late owner, by January 1966.
Literature
Catalogue des tableaux, aquarelles, pastels et dessins modernes formant la collection de M. A. Donatis, Paris, 1897, no. 264 (titled Caricatures).
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 441 (titled Caricatures).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, New York, 1967, vol II, p. 65, no. 171 (illustrated, pl. 35; with incorrect media).
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 441 (titled Caricatures).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, New York, 1967, vol II, p. 65, no. 171 (illustrated, pl. 35; with incorrect media).
Exhibited
New York, Seligmann & Co; Providence Museum; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and Worcester Art Museum, One Hundred Years of French Art: 1800-1900, October 1934-January 1935 (illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1938 (on extended loan).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1938 (on extended loan).