The Spectators

Prints and Drawings

c. 1860–64

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Title: The Spectators
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1840–1879
Medium: Charcoal on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 23.6 × 30.5 cm (9 5/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Carter H. Harrison Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 1965.12
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K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. 2 (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), p. 169, no. 504, pl. 173.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 45, no. 2D5.
Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Julietta Scharf, “Die Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg in Berlin,” in Die Moderne und Ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Reublik (Berlin, 2001), p. 179.

Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, “Daumier 1808-1879”, June 11-September 6, 1999, pp. 412 (ill.) and 419, cat. 261; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, February 19-May 14, 2000.

Otto Gerstenberg (died 1935), Berlin, by 1927; by descent to his daughter, Margaret Scharf, from 1935 [a letter from Maison in curatorial file]. Fritz Nathan, Zurich [Maison 1968]; sold to the Art Institute, 1965.

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