Street Musicians

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1855

Style of Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Style of Honoré Victorin Daumier
Title: Street Musicians
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.: 1850–1860
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 26 × 32.4 cm (10 1/4 × 12 3/4 in.); Framed: 43.9 × 50.8 × 5.8 cm (17 1/4 × 20 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 1954.308
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Arsène Alexandre, Daumier. Maîtres de l’art moderne (Paris, 1928), pl. 35.
Julius Meier-Graefe, “Honoré Daumier—Fifty Years After,” International Studio 94, 388 (1929), p. 25 (ill.).
Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier. Nachtrag—Supplement (Munich, 1930), pp. 62, 279, no. 279b.
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings. Vol. I. The Paintings (New York, 1968), pp. 437-8.
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 88.

Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4-18, 1929, no. 61.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot Daumier, October 16-November 23, 1930, no. 74.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, no. 158.
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9-31, 1936, no. 10.
Springfield, Mass., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, The Romantic Revolt, February 7-March 5, 1939, no. 28.

Reinhardt Galleries, New York [this provenance is given in a receipt of November 25, 1929, in Art Institute Registrar’s office, copy in curatorial file, recording the loan of the painting from Joseph Winterbotham, Jr.]; Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (died 1954), Burlington, Vermont, by 1929 [according to the receipt cited above and Chicago 1929]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the Joseph Winterbotham bequest in 1954.

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