The Print Collector

c. 1857/63

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

Status: On View, Gallery 225
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Title: The Print Collector
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.: 1852–1868
Medium: Oil on cradled panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: h. Daumier
Dimensions: 42.3 × 33 cm (16 5/8 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Marshall Field
Reference Number: 1957.305
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Léon Rosenthal, Daumier, (L’Art de Notre Temps) (Paris, [1911]), pp. 105-06, pl. 45.
René Jean, L’art Français à Saint-Pétersbourg, Exposition Centennale sous les auspices de S.A.I. le Grand-duc Nicolas Mikhailovitch (Paris, 1912), pp. 34-5.
Ardengo Soffici, “Daumier Pittore,” Dedalo 2 (1921-22), pp. 405-20, (ill.).
Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier (Munich, 1923), p. 120, no. 373, p. 138 (ill.).
André Fontainas, La Peinture de Daumier (Paris [1923]), p. 5 (ill.).
Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier (Munich 1927), p. 50, no. 109, fig. 109.
Arsène Alexandre, Daumier, (Maîtres de l’Art Moderne), Paris 1928, pl. 6.
Henri Focillon, “Honoré Daumier (1808-1879),” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th period, 2, 1929, (ill.).
Honoré Daumier, Daumier raconté par lui-même et ses amis (Geneva 1945), pp. 276-77, no. 21.
Curt Schweicher, Daumier (Stuttgart, 1953), no. 16 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 52, no. 3 (1958), p. 51, (cover ill.).
Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting (New York, [1960]), p. 179, pl.71a.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago 1961), p. 114, p. 233 (ill.).
Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1965, p. 357, no. 663 [annotation of 1875 Corot sale].
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings (New York, 1968), vol. 1, pp. 132-133, no. I-152, pl. 96.
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 88.
Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 41-43, p. 117 (ill.).

Paris, Exposition Internationale Universelle de 1900, Exposition Centennale de l’art français (1800-1889), 1900, no. 82.
Paris, Exposition de Vingt Peintres du Siècle, 1910.
Paris, Exposition de la Croix-Rouge, 1912. Zurich, Zürcher Kunsthaus, Französische Kunst des XIX u. XX Jahrhunderts, 5 October to 14 November 1917, no. 71, (ill.).
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Cinquante ans de peinture française 1875-1925, 28 May-12 July 1925, no. 26, (ill.).
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Exposition Retrospective d’Art Français, 3 July-30 September 1926, no. 32, (ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Eighth Loan Exhibition, Corot-Daumier, October 16-November 23 1930, no. 90, (ill.).
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Daumier: peintures, aquarelles, dessins, 1934, no. 21, (ill.).
New York World’s Fair, Catalogue of European and American Paintings 1500-1900, Masterpieces of Art, May to October, 1940, New York, no. 255, (ill.).
Chicago, Art Institute, Tour de France, Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, December 9 1989 - March 4 1990, no cat.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Daumier, June 3–September 6, 1999, no. 246, (ill.).; Paris, Grand Palais, October 5, 1999–January 3, 2000; Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, February 19-May 14, 2000 [Ottawa and Paris only].
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879): The Heroism of Modern Life, October 22, 2013-January 26, 2014.

Possibly Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Paris (died 1875); sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26–June 9, 1875, lot 663 to M[onsieur] Jacquot (for 1550 FF) [according to Robaut 1965, p. 257]. Possibly Henri Vever (died 1897) [according to Paris 1934]. Probably Georges Viau, Paris, 1900 [Viau lent L’Amateur to Paris 1900]. Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Paris, by 1912 [see René Jean 1912, pp. 34-35]; his widow, until at least 1934 [lent to Paris 1934]; sold to Jacques Seligmann [see Seligman 1960, p. 179]; Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris and New York, who sold a share of the painting to Knoedler’s, New York, in October, 1938, buying it back in December, 1938 [letter of May 11, 1999, from Melissa de Medeiros, M. Knoedler & Co. in curatorial file]; sold by Seligmann to Marshall Field III, Chicago, 1938 [according to Seligman 1960, caption to pl. 71a]; given by the Estate of Marshall Field to the Art Institute, 1957.

Maiso I-152

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