
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005802The Three Connoisseurs
Provenance
Maître Bollet, Lille [Maison 1968; according to Huisman]. Huisman, Paris, by 1967 [according to a letter from Maison to Huisman dated November 1967 in the curatorial file]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 142-43, cat. 70 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 43 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 86-87, cat. 40 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 136-37, cat. 61 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. Frankfurt, Germany, the Städelsches Kunstinstitut and the Städtische Galerie, "Honoré Daumier," November 17, 1992-January 17, 1993, cat. 71, cat. by Colta Ives, Margret Stuffmann, Martin Sonnabend, et al. Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, "Daumier," February 19-May 14, 2000, cat. 258.
Publications
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1967-1968), p. 29 (ill.). K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, 2 (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), no. 390z (ill.). Louis Provost, Honoré Daumier, a Thematic Guide to the Oeuvre (New York, 1989), p. 215. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 43, no. 2D1. The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago, 1984), p. 84, fig. 36-2.
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
- after 1869
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and black and gray wash, over traces of charcoal, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
- Dimensions
- 49.3 × 39.2 cm (19 7/16 × 15 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation in honor of Frank B. Hubachek
- Accession no.
- 1968.1
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