Family Scene

1. Otto Gerstenberg (died 1935), Berlin, by 1927 [according to Fuchs 1927]; by descent to his daughter, Margaret Scharf, from 1935-at least 1960 [according to a lettter from Maison in curatorial file]. Fritz Nathan, Zurich [according to Maison 1968]. Private Collection, Switzerland [according to Maison 1968]. Sold by Fritz Nathan to the Art Institute, 1965.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Berlin, Galerie Matthiesen, "Honoré Daumier," February 21-March 31, 1926, cat. 136.
• Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 7.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 140-41, cat. 69 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
• 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. 134-35, cat. 60 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
• Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, "Honoré Daumier: Zeichnungen," November 17, 1992-January 17, 1993, p. 128, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Colta Ives, Margret Stuffmann, Martin Sonnabend, et al.; also traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 26-May 2, 1993.

• Piper Marees-Gesellschaft, Zeichnungen (Munich, 1918), no. 11 (ill.).
• Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier (Munich, 1927), no. 224a (ill.).
• Benno Fleischman, Honoré Daumier (Vienna, 1938), no. 75 (ill.).
• Heinrich Leporini, Die Kunstlerzeichnung (Brunswick, 1955), no. 100 (ill.).
• K. E. Maison, Daumier Drawings (New York, 1960), no. 56 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1965-1966) (ill.).
• K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, vol. 2 (Greenwich, Conn., 1968), p. 241, no. 726, pl. 285.
• Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 43, no. 2D2.
• Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 42, 45, and 117 (ill.).
• David M. Cassidy, Passing the Tradition, The Chicago Report (1996).
• Alexandra von dem Knesebeck, Käthe Kollwitz: die prägenden Jahre, Ph.D thesis (Petersberg, 1998), pp. 148 and 150, fig. 109.
• Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Julietta Scharf, "Die Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg in Berlin," in Die Moderne und Ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Reublik (Berlin, 2001), p. 179.

“- Here, Eudoxie, take my bear skin... since from now on I will not have the pleasure any more to wear it, I give it to you to make a muff out of it... This way I have at least the satisfaction of seeing it from time to time”

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The Print Collector

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Nadar Elevating Photography to the Heights of Art, plate 367 from Souvenirs d’artistes

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Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle

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"- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857

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“- What a fuss this sour-face from the fifth floor is making! Wearing a hat just to buy two cups of milk for one sou! - Oh, Madame Capitaine, aren't we fancy today...,” plate 36 Types Parisiens

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"- My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don't mention it, my dear, it's horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become..... I only replied: Ah, well! - And that's the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!,” plate 30 from Types Parisiens

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Malbroug s'en va-t-en Guerre...

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