Mother and Baby

Honoré Daumier

Associated Names
Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

The image shows a woman standing in a side profile, holding an infant in her arms. She has long, dark hair and is wearing a long, flowing dress. The baby is wrapped in a blanket. A shadow is cast on the wall next to them. The background is plain and textured.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    crayon and pen and black ink with gray and brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.5 x 17.4 cm (9 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1963.10.243

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Maison 1968, no. 233

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Latouche. (Etienne Bignou). (Cassirer). (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1930, no. 4). Chester Dale, by 1931; bequest 1963 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1968

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

1996

  • Laughton, Bruce. Honoré Daumier. New Haven and London, 1996: fig. 41.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: h.D.; upper left verso in brown ink: h.D.; in later hand, across center verso in graphite: 38 x [46?]

Wikidata ID

Q64574429

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