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Honoré Daumier

French, 1808–1879

The Drinkers

c. 1860

Medium watercolor, pen and ink, and charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions 9 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. (23.9 x 26.7 cm)
Object Number 1955.1504
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Honoré Daumier, The Drinkers, c. 1860, watercolor, pen and ink, and charcoal on cream laid paper . Clark Art Institute, 1955.1504

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Paris.. La Caricature.. 1888.. Paris: Grand Palais.. Exposition Universelle, Exposition centennale de l'art français de 1800 à 1899.. 1900.. Paris: Ecole des Beaux-Arts.. Exposition Daumier.. 1901.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Nineteen: Daumier.. June 1962.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Metropolitan Museum, New York.. Daumier Drawings. Feb. 16-May 2, 1993; Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, Nov. 17, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993. Cat. by Colta Ives et al.. 1992.. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada.. Daumier, 1808-1879. June 3-Sept. 6, 1999; Musée d'Orsay, Oct. 5, 1999-Jan. 3, 2000; Phillips Collection, Washington, Feb. 19-May 14, 2000. (Cat. by Henri Loyrette.) Arsène Alexandre.. Honoré Daumier, l'homme et l'oeuvre.. Paris.. 1888.. Geffroy, Gustave. Daumier. Paris. 1901. Erick Klossowski.. Honoré Daumier.. Munich: R. Piper.. 1923.. Eduard Fuchs.. Der Maler Daumier.. Munich: R. Langen.. 1927.. . L'Amour de l'Art.. 1927.. Raymond Escholier.. Daumier.. Paris.. 1920.. François Fosca.. Daumier.. Paris.. 1933.. Jean Adhemar.. Honoré Daumier: Drawings and Watercolors.. New York.. 1954.. Curt Scheiwiller.. Daumier.. London.. 1954.. Claude Roger-Marx.. L'Univers de Daumier.. Paris: H. Screpel.. 1972.. Roger Passeron.. Honoré Daumier, Témoin de Son Temps.. Fribourg: Office du Livre. 1980. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. London: Phaidon press, 1981.. Guy Hubbard and Enid Zimmerman.. Artstrands: A Program of Individualized Art Instruction.. Prospect Heights (IL): Waveland Press.. 1982.. Seiji Oshima.. Drawings of the Great Masters, vol. 20: Daumier.. Tokyo: Kodansha.. 1979.. Milton Hirschl.. Creative Figure Drawing: Art from life, Life from Art.. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall.. 1988.. Bruce Laughton.. Honoré Daumier.. New Haven: Yale University Press.. 1996.. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. . Honoré Daumier.. Saber, 36.. Judith Weschler.. Daumier: Le Cabinet des Dessins.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1999.. Karl Eric Maison.. Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings.. I.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1968.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Varriano, John. Wine: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books, 2010.

Provenance

Possibly Latouche; Paul Bureau, Paris; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 20 May 1927, no. 65, ill., as La Chanson; [Knoedler, Paris, sold to Clark]; Robert Sterling Clark; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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