Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002392The Spectators
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Honoré Victorin Daumier / French, 1808-1879
- Date
- c. 1860–64
- Medium
- Charcoal on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.6 × 30.5 cm (9 5/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Carter H. Harrison Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1965.12
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