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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Side Show (La Parade)
    Honoré Daumier. The Side Show (La Parade), 1865/67. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004503

    The Side Show (La Parade)

    by Honoré Daumier

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    Provenance

    Mlle. M. Geoffroy, Paris, by May 1901-at least 1923 [Paris 1901; Klossowski 1923]. Henraux, Paris [Paris 1999]. Mme. Elisabeth Valdo-Barbey, Paris, by 1934-at least December 1936 [Paris 1934; Vienna 1936]. Paul Rosenberg, New York, by 1961 [London 1961]. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1967 [Washington D.C. 1967]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, "Peintures et Dessins, Daumier," 1878, no. 135. Paris, Beaux-Arts, "Exposition Daumier," 1901, no. 207. Paris, Musée de Orangerie, "Daumier: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins," 1934, no. 102. Vienna, Graphischesammlung Albertina, "Honoré Daumier," November-December 1936, no. 12. Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Cent ans de Theatre, Music Hall et Cirque," 25 May-13 July 1936, no. 12. London, Tate Gallery, "Daumier: Paintings and Drawings," 1961, no. 181. 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. 66; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 21 September-2 November 1967. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 47; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, "Honoré Daumier : Zeichnungen," November 17, 1992-January 17, 1993, p. 216, cat. 107 (ill.), cat. by Colta Ives, Margret Stuffmann, Martin Sonnabend, et. al. ; 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 cat. 326; only traveled to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 3 June-6 September 1999. London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Daumier: Visions of Paris", October 26, 2013 - January 26, 2014, pp. 21, 160-161, cat. 96 (ill.).

    Publications

    Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier (Munich, 1923), no. 191. Claude Roger-Marx, Daumier (Paris, 1938), p. 17. R. Huyghe and P. Jaccottet, Le Dessin Français au XIX Siècle (Lausanne, 1948), pl. 51. K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, vol. 2 (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), no. 553 (ill.). Veronika Kaposy, "Remarques sur Deux Epoques Importantes de l'Art de Daumier Dessinateur," Acta Historiae Artium, 14 (1968), no. 5 (ill.). Paula Hays Harper, Daumier's Clowns (New York, 1981), no. 57 (ill.). Louis Provost, Honoré Daumier, a Thematic Guide to the Oeuvre (New York, 1989), p. 216. The Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 196 (ill.). Museu Picasso, Picasso i el circ, exh. cat. (Barcelona: Museu Picasso 2006), p. 43, fig. 3.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Honoré Victorin Daumier / French, 1808-1879
    Date
    1865/67
    Medium
    Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, with charcoal, on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)
    Dimensions
    51.7 × 36.4 cm (20 3/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
    Accession no.
    1988.141.26

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