Actor Posing in Front of a Mirror

1870s?

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with crayon and watercolor on heavy laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.6 x 25.8 cm (11 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3242

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Goupil & Cie, Paris). Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 8-10 May 1929, no. 179). Lessing J. Rosenwald, by 1930; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1968

  • Maison 1968, p. 272 V.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Ingres by

Wikidata ID

Q64574406

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