Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004502Three Gossips
Provenance
Arsene Alexandre, Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 18-19, 1903, Alexandre sale, lot 119, to Albert Pra, Paris [annotated sales catalogue, spelled Prat]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 17, 1938, Pra sale, lot 5, to Maurice Gobin (died 1962), Paris [annotated sale catalogue]. Alfred Strolin (died 2000), Lausanne [Maison 1968]. Grange [Maison 1968]. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1961 [London 1961]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Daumier: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins," 1934, cat. 75. London, Tate Gallery, "Daumier: Paintings and Drawings," 14 June-30 July 1961, cat. 109. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block," 4 May-11 June 1967, cat. 67; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 21 September-2 November 1967.
Publications
Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier (Munich, 1923), no. 291b. K. E. Maison, Daumier: Drawings (New York, 1960), no. 17. K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, vol. 2 (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), p. 232, no. 694 (ill.).
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
- 1865/1867
- Medium
- Black crayon and charcoal, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 × 29 cm (9 3/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- Accession no.
- 1988.141.25
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