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Honoré Daumier

The Beggars, c. 1843

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 59.5 x 73.5 cm (23 7/16 x 28 15/16 in.)

framed: 92.7 x 105.4 x 8.9 cm (36 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.12

Artists / Makers

Honoré Daumier (artist) French, 1808 - 1879

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Inscription

lower left: h. Daumier

Provenance

The artist [1808-1879]; by inheritance to his wife, Marie-Alexandrine Daumier, Paris; (Durand-Ruel, New York); sold 1892 to Peter A.B. Widener [1834-1915], Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; by exchange April 1908 to (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold November 1908 to de Lagotellière, Paris.[1] [Eugene?] Hirsch, Paris; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 December 1912, no. 17); purchased by Gaston Bernheim de Villers [1870-1953], Paris, for his private collection. Julien Bessonneau, Angers, in 1914.[2] Marcel Kapferer, Paris, by 1924;[3] (Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin); sold by 1930 to Fritz Hess, Lucerne;[4] (Hess sale, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, in conjunction with Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1 September 1931, no. 17, bought in or bought by Arthur Fischer of Galerie Fischer); (Hess sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 2-7 September 1935, no. 2343, St. Galler und Basler Privatbesitz, Sammlung B., bought in); (Arthur Fischer, Lucerne); sold 1949 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.[5]

[1] The picture was traded, in May 1908, to Knoedler & Co., New York, for "3 Van Dycks," according to a handwritten note on the plate reproducing the painting in the copy of the 1908 Widener catalogue in the NGA library's Archive section (Reference Librarian's Office). The sale by Knoedler to de Lagotellière was confirmed by Knoedler to David Rust, 30 March 1964.

[2] Lent by Bessonneau to the 1914 exhibition at Grosvenor House, according to T. Martin Wood, "The Grosvenor House Exhibition of Modern French Art," International Studio LIV, no. 213 (November 1914): 7.

[3] Lent in 1924 by Kapferer to 1e Exposition de Collectionneurs, held at L'Hôtel de la Curiousité et des Beaux-Arts in Luxembourg.

[4] Lent by Hess to the 1930 Corot-Daumier exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

[5] Date and source of Dale acquisition according to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Bernheim de Villers, Gaston
Bessonneau, Julien
Dale, Chester
Daumier, Marie-Alexandrine
Drouot, Hôtel
Fischer, Arthur
Galerie Paul Cassirer
Galeries Fischer
Galeries Fischer
Hess, Fritz
Hirsch
Kapferer, Marcel
Knoedler & Company, M.
Lagotellière, de
The Matthiesen Gallery
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Exhibition History

1914: Modern French Art, Grosvenor House, London, 1914

1924: Première exposition de collectionneurs au profit des amis du Luxembourg, Paris, 1924, no. 111

1925: Les grandes influences au dix-neuvième siècle, Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1925, no. 4

1926: Austellung Honoré Daumier, Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1926, no. 61, repro.

1930: Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 62, repro.

1931: Romantische Malerie in Deutschland und Frankreich, Ludwigs Gallery, Munich, 1931, no. 22

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

1979: Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 35, repro.

Bibliography

1885: Modern Paintings. Catalogue of Paintings forming the Private Collection of P.A.B. Widener, Ashborne--near Philadelphia, privately printed, 1908: 17, repro., as Paupers Seeking Alms.

1888: Alexandre, Arsène. Honoré Daumier, l'homme et l'oeuvre. Paris, 1888: pl. 28.

1908: "P.A.B. Widener Collection, February 1st, 1908." Typescript, 2 vols., Library, National Gallery of Art, 1908: 17, repro., as Paupers Seeking Alms.

1914: Wood, T. Martin. "The Grosvenor House Exhibition of Modern French Art."International Studio 54, no. 213 (November 1914): repro. 7.

1922: Honoré Daumier. The Phillips Publications, New York, 1922: pl. 16, mistakenly as Saltimbanques.

1923: Fontainas, André. La Peinture de Daumier. Paris, 1923: pl. 13.

1923: Klossowski, Erich. Honoré Daumier. Munich, 1923: 113, no. 291A.

1924: L'Amour de l'Art 2 (1924): 51.

1927: Fuchs, Eduard. Der Maler Daumier. New York, 1927: 45, repro. opposite 16 (Munich, 1930: 45, repro. opposite 111).

1931: Art News 29, no. 38 (11 July 1931): 13, repro.

1931: Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne (November 1931): 438.

1935: Beaux Arts (13 September 1935): repro. 6.

1935: Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne (November 1935): 367.

1938: Lassaigne, Jacques. Daumier. New York, 1938: 167, no. 93, pl. 93.

1954: Adhémar, Jean. Homoré Daumier. Paris, 1954: 114, no. 18, pl. 18 (mistakenly listed as in the Musée Boymans, Rotterdam).

1954: Schweicher, Curt. Daumier. London, 1954: pl. 44.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 41, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 37.

1968: Maison, K.E. Honoré Daumier, catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. New York, 1968: I:191, no. 16, repro.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 30, repro.

1971: Mandel, Gabriele. L'opera pittorica completa di Daumier. Milan, 1971: no. 111, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 92, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 437, no. 624, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 114, repro.

2000: Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 153-157, repro.