
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003080A Group of Men, and Other Sketches
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.).
Publications
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.
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
- 1857
- Medium
- Black crayon, over traces of charcoal, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 42 × 30.9 cm (16 9/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Given in memory of Tiffany Blake
- Accession no.
- 1948.19
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