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Street Musicians
Style of Honoré Victorin Daumier · c. 1855
Provenance
Ownership history
- Reinhardt Galleries, New York [this provenance is given in a receipt of November 25, 1929, in Art Institute Registrar’s office, copy in curatorial file, recording the loan of the painting from Joseph Winterbotham, Jr.]; Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (died 1954), Burlington, Vermont, by 1929 [according to the receipt cited above and Chicago 1929]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the Joseph Winterbotham bequest in 1954.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4-18, 1929, no. 61.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot Daumier, October 16-November 23, 1930, no. 74.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, no. 158.
- Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9-31, 1936, no. 10.
- Springfield, Mass., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, The Romantic Revolt, February 7-March 5, 1939, no. 28.
Literature
Published references
- Arsène Alexandre, Daumier. Maîtres de l’art moderne (Paris, 1928), pl. 35.
- Julius Meier-Graefe, “Honoré Daumier—Fifty Years After,” International Studio 94, 388 (1929), p. 25 (ill.).
- Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier. Nachtrag—Supplement (Munich, 1930), pp. 62, 279, no. 279b.
- K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings. Vol. I. The Paintings (New York, 1968), pp. 437-8.
- John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 88.
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