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Honoré Daumier

The Prodigal Son

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with black wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 21.2 x 15 cm (8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Maison 1968, no. 754

Accession Number

1943.3.3238

Artists / Makers

Honoré Daumier (artist) French, 1808 - 1879

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Inscription

in later hand, lower right verso: KK 1050

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1958: Honoré Daumier Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1958.

1958: Honoré Daumier: Exhibition of Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum, 1958, 217.

1999: Daumier: 1808-1879, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 191, repro. (shown only in Paris and Washington).

2013: Daumier ist ungebeuer!, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor der Landesbank Berlin Holding AG, Max Lieberman Haus, Berlin, 2013, no. 8.18, repro.

Bibliography

1958: Feinblatt 1958, 215 (dated c.1865-66).

1958: Wick 1958, 174.

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

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