Honoré Daumier
French, 1808–1879
Two Colleagues
c. 1855
| Medium | pen, brush, black and blue ink, gray and beige wwash, heightened with white gouache, over sketch in black chalk |
| Dimensions | Overall: 9 1/4 x 7 5/16 in. (23.5 x 18.6 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1503 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Honoré Daumier, Two Colleagues, c. 1855, pen, brush, black and blue ink, gray and beige wwash, heightened with white gouache, over sketch in black chalk. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1503
Select Bibliography
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.
Washington (DC): National Gallery of Art.. Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879, cat. by Jan Rie Kist.. Sept. 23-Nov. 25, 1979..
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.)
Erick Klossowski.. Honoré Daumier.. Munich: R. Piper.. 1923..
Eduard Fuchs.. Der Maler Daumier.. Munich: R. Langen.. 1927..
Graham Reynolds.. History of Watercolors.. London: Thames & Hudson..
Claude Roy.. Honoré Daumier.. Geneva: Skira.. 1971..
Ronald Searle, Claude Roy, Bernd Bornemann.. La Caricature--Art et Manifeste.. Geneva: Skira.. 1974..
Boime, Albert. Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1980.
Eleazar Weinrib et al.. Philosophy: Problems in Ethics. (in Hebrew).. Tel Aviv: Everyman's University.. 1980..
Jenny Rodwell.. The Complete Watercolor Artist.. London: Pelham Books.. 1987..
Bruce Laughton.. Honoré Daumier.. New Haven: Yale University Press.. 1996..
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.
Karl Eric Maison.. Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings.. I.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1968..
Provenance
Tavernier (sale Paris, Georges Petit, March 6, 1900, no. 109); Tavernier (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 15, 1907, no. 68 {annotated in copy of the Frick copy of sale catalogue: "Tavernier," therefore probably bought in}); Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1915).
