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Inscription

stamped in wax positive on rear lower left: M.L.G. [Maurice Le Garrec]; cold-stamped below right: BRONZE; cold-stamped inside, at right front, in an inscribed circle: 23/30

Provenance

(Henri M. Petiet, Paris), c. June 1950; sold 2 March 1951 to Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania;[1] gift 1951 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1958
Honoré Daumier, Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1958, no. 10, repro.
1960
Honoré Daumier, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960, no cat.
1964
Lithography and Sculpture of Daumier, Realist and Satirist, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1964, unnumbered brochure.
1969
Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, no. 1c, repro.
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
1979
Honoré Daumier 1808-1879, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 6, repro.
1999
Daumier: 1808-1879, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 10b, repro., as D'Argout (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1952
Gobin, Maurice. Daumier Sculpteur, 1808-1879. Geneva, 1952: no. 31.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 150, as one of The Deputies, complete set of 36 bronze busts.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 133, repro.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 51, repro.
2000
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 126-127, color repro.

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