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    Four Lawyers
    Honoré Daumier. Four Lawyers, 1867/1870. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004504

    Four Lawyers

    by Honoré Daumier

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sir Edmund Davis (died 1939), London [Maison 1968]. Sold, Christie’s, London, May 15, 1942, Davis sale, lot 41 to Percy Moore Turner (died 1950), London [Paris 1999]. K. E. Maison, London, by 1953 [Montreal 1953]. Paul Rosenberg, New York. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1960 [Maison 1960]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.

    Exhibition history

    Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, "Five Centuries of Drawings," October-November 1953, cat. 198. New York, Poughkeepsie, Vassar College, "Centennial Loan Exhibition," 1961, cat. 88; also traveled to Wildenstein & Co., New York. 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. 68; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 21 September-2 November 1967. Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, "Honoré Daumier : Zeichnungen," November 17, 1992-January 17, 1993, p. 195, cat. 92 (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," 5 October 1999-3 January, cat. 285.

    Publications

    K. E. Maison, Daumier Drawings, (New York, 1960), no. 131 (ill.). The Art Journal 20, (Summer 1961), p. 234 (ill.). K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, vol. 2, (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), no. 605 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Honoré Victorin Daumier / French, 1808-1879
    Date
    1867/1870
    Medium
    Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, on grayish-cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    27.1 × 22.5 cm (10 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
    Accession no.
    1988.141.27

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