A Group of Men, and Other Sketches

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Prints and Drawings

1857

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

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Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Title: A Group of Men, and Other Sketches
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.: 1852–1862
Medium: Black crayon, over traces of charcoal, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 42 × 30.9 cm (16 9/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Given in memory of Tiffany Blake
Reference Number: 1948.19
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Lionello Venturi, “Quelques Dessins de Daumier,” Art Quarterly I (Winter 1938), pp 50 and 52, fig. 5.
K. E. Maison, Daumier Drawings (New York, 1960), p. 22, no. 62 (ill.).
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, 2 (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), p. 259, no. 794, pl. 209.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2D6.

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, “Exposition des Peintures et Dessins de H. Daumier,” 1878.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “French Drawings in American Collections,” February 3-March 15, 1959, cat. 108, pl. 13; traveled to Paris, the Musée de Orangerie; and Rotterdam, the Boymanns Museum.
Northampton, Mass., Smith College, “Daumier: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints,” October 6-29, 1961, cat. 19.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 88, pl. xxxiv.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 29 (ill.).
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 14, 1972.
Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, “Honoré Daumier: Zeichnungen,” November 17, 1992-January 17, 1993, pp. 233-234, cat. 118 (ill.), cat. by Colta Ives, Margret Stuffmann, Martin Sonnabend, et. al.; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 26-May 2, 1993.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Daumier,” October 5, 1999-January 3, 2000, p. 467, cat. 309 (ill.); Ottawa, Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts, June 11-September 6, 1999; and Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, February 19-May 14, 2000.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, “Daumier: Visions of Paris”, October 26, 2013 - January 26, 2014, pp. 20, 126-127, cat 67 (ill.).

Galerie Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [Maison 1968]. Carstairs Gallery, New York [Maison 1968]. Given by Richard H. Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1948.

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