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Honoré Daumier

Le Défenseur (Counsel for the Defense), c. 1862/1865

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink, charcoal, crayon, and watercolor on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 8 3/16 x 11 13/16 in. (20.7 x 30 cm)
sheet: 20 3/8 x 23 3/4 in. (51.8 x 60.3 cm)

framed: 17 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. (44.8 x 54.9 cm)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.173

Artists / Makers

Honoré Daumier (artist) French, 1808 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in pen and black ink: h. Daumier

Provenance

Paul Gallimard, Paris; Ferdinand Heilbuth (1826-1889), Paris, by 1888; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 19-21 May 1890, no. 327; Henri Vever (1854-1942); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-2 February 1897, no. 137; to William A. Clark (1839-1925); bequest in 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art (inv. 26.68); acquired in 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1888: "Peintures, aquarelles, dessins et lithographies des maîtres français de la caricature et de la peinture de moeurs au XIXe siècle," École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1888, no. 415.

1889: "Exposition Centennale." Paris, 1889, no. 136.

1901: "Exposition Daumier." 1901, no. 203.

1907: Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, no. 15.

1961: "Daumier: Paintings and Drawings." Tate Gallery, London (Arts Council of Great Britain), 1961, no. 222, pl. 33.

1978: "The William A. Clark Collection," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 26-July 16.

1979: Honoré Damuier 1808-1879, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1979, no. 54, repro.

1983: "La Vie Moderne." The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Columbus, GA; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX; Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL; Josyln Museum of Art, Omaha, NE; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 1983-1985, no. 39 (entry by Eden Rafshoon).

1989: "The William A. Clark Collection: Treasures of a Copper King." Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, and Montana Historical Society, Helena MT, 1989, reprod. p. 11.

1999: "Daumier 1808-1879," Musee Des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, June 11- September 6, 1999; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 1999 - January 3, 2000; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, February 19-May 14, 2000, no. 2225.

2015: Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015.

Bibliography

1923: Klossowski, Erich. Honoré Daumier. Munich,1923: 98, no. 129, Pl. 68.

1925: Carroll, Dana. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. [Unpublished], 1925, Part I: 171, no. 168.

1928: Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection. Washington, DC, 1928: 41, no. 2068.

1930: Fuchs, Eduard. Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930: under no. 186b.

1932: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 43, no. 2068.

1956: Maison, K. E. "Further Daumier Studies I: The Tracings." The Burlingon Magazine 98, no. 638 (May 1956): 165, fig. 44.

1962: Larkin, Oliver. Daumier in His Time and Ours. Northampton, MA, 1962: fig. 5.

1968: Maison, K. E. Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. Vol. II. The Watercolours and Drawings. [Greenwich, CT], 1968, 2: 219, no. 660, pl. 251.

1971: Roy, Claude. Daumier dessins. Geneva, 1971: reprod. p. 75.

1995: Thomson, Richard. Edgar Degas: Waiting. Malibu, CA, 1995: 84, fig. 57.

1996: Laughton, Bruce. Honoré Daumier. New Haven and London, 1996: 94-95, fig. 117.

2006: Dumas, Anne. Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes. London, Merrel, 91-92, fig. 87.

2016: National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 218, repro.