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]
Associated Names
Bernheim de Villers, GastonBessonneau, 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.
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