The Reading

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal and crayon on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 33.7 x 44 cm (13 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3247

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Maison 1968, no. 356

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Honoré Daumier, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, no cat.

1958

  • Honoré Daumier Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1958, no. 173.

  • Honoré Daumier: Exhibition of Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum, 1958, no. 214.

1965

  • Honoré Daumier: Drawings, Lithographs, Sculptures, Books, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1965.

Bibliography

1958

  • Feinblatt 1958, 214.

  • Wick 1958, 173.

1968

  • Maison, K.E. Honore Daumier: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings. 2 vols. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968.

Wikidata ID

Q64574412

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