Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., London, to Robert Sterling Clark, for purchase of one painting. Dated 13 October 1925.

Honoré Daumier

French, 1808–1879

The Print Collectors

c. 1860–63

Famous for his prints caricaturing modern French life and contemporary politics, Daumier was also an innovative painter and sculptor. This small panel captures the enthusiasm of a group of connoisseurs huddled together to examine a print that one of them holds up to the light. Their faces suggest differing reactions, some appreciative, others reserving judgment. Prints and portfolios are strewn across the table and framed pictures line the walls.

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	12 1/16 x 16 in. (30.7 x 40.7 cm) Frame: 18 1/4 x 21 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (46.4 x 55.6 x 5.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.696
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Honoré Daumier, The Print Collectors, c. 1860–63, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.696

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Galeries Durand-Ruel. Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1878. Institut Français, St. Petersburg.. Exposition Centenniale de l'Art Française.. 1912.. Société des Beaux-Arts, Basle.. Exposition de Peinture Française.. 1921.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Nineteen: Daumier.. June 1962.. 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.) Henri Frantz,. "The Rouart Collection: II, The Works of Daumier.". vol. 58.. The Studio.. April, 1913.. Michael Sadleir.. Daumier: The Man and the Artist.. London.. 1924.. Eduard Fuchs.. Der Maler Daumier.. Munich: R. Langen.. 1927.. Escholier, Raymond. Daumier, 18081879. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1930. Jacques Lassaigne.. Daumier.. Paris: Hyperion.. 1938.. Lionello Venturi.. Modern Painters.. New York: Scribner's.. 1947.. Cassou, Jean. Daumier. Lausanne, 1949. Curt Schweicher.. Daumier (Ars Mundi series).. London.. 1954.. M.-L. D'Ortrange Mastai.. "The Connoisseur in America.". 151:609.. The Connoisseur.. Nov. 1962.. r.f.c.. "Williamstown: Una mostra di Daumier.". 68:8; 136:812.. Emporium.. August 1962.. H. R. Hoetink.. "Three Centuries of French Art.". vol. 86, no. 65.. Apollo.. July 1967.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Claude Roy.. Honoré Daumier.. Geneva: Skira.. 1971.. Gabriel Mandel.. L'opera Pittorica Completa di Daumier (Classici dell'Arti series).. Milan: Rizzoli.. 1971.. Gabriel Mandel.. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1972.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America: The Clark Collection Opens" in Connoisseur CXXXVI, no. 550 (December 1955): 305–10. Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Joseph D. Ketner et al.. A Gallery of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis.. St. Louis: Washington University.. 1994.. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Joel E. Dimsdale.. "Medical Publishing: Remembrance of Things Past and Intimations of the Future".. Vol. 63, No. 1.. Psychosomatic Medicine.. January/February 2001.:pp. 1-3.. Karl Eric Maison.. Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings.. I.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1968.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.

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Provenance

Béguin (in 1878); Joanny Peytel, Paris (by 1912–d. 1924); [Knoedler, London, sold to Clark, 13 October 1925]; Robert Sterling Clark (1925–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.