The Print Collector

1. Possibly Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Paris (died 1875); sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26–June 9, 1875, lot 663 to M[onsieur] Jacquot (for 1550 FF) [according to Robaut 1965, p. 257]. Possibly Henri Vever (died 1897) [according to Paris 1934]. Probably Georges Viau, Paris, 1900 [Viau lent L'Amateur to Paris 1900]. Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Paris, by 1912 [see René Jean 1912, pp. 34-35]; his widow, until at least 1934 [lent to Paris 1934]; sold to Jacques Seligmann [see Seligman 1960, p. 179]; Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris and New York, who sold a share of the painting to Knoedler's, New York, in October, 1938, buying it back in December, 1938 [letter of May 11, 1999, from Melissa de Medeiros, M. Knoedler & Co. in curatorial file]; sold by Seligmann to Marshall Field III, Chicago, 1938 [according to Seligman 1960, caption to pl. 71a]; given by the Estate of Marshall Field to the Art Institute, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Exposition Internationale Universelle de 1900, Exposition Centennale de l'art français (1800-1889), 1900, no. 82.
• Berlin, Cassirer Kunstsalon, Sonderausstellung Sammlung Honore Daumier, Jan. 5–about Feb. 9, 1901, no cat.
• Paris, Exposition de Vingt Peintres du Siècle, 1910.
• Paris, Exposition de la Croix-Rouge, 1912. Zurich, Zürcher Kunsthaus, Französische Kunst des XIX u. XX Jahrhunderts, 5 October to 14 November 1917, no. 71, (ill.).
• Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Cinquante ans de peinture française 1875-1925, 28 May-12 July 1925, no. 26, (ill.).
• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Exposition Retrospective d'Art Français, 3 July-30 September 1926, no. 32, (ill.).
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Eighth Loan Exhibition, Corot-Daumier, October 16-November 23 1930, no. 90, (ill.).
• Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Daumier: peintures, aquarelles, dessins, 1934, no. 21, (ill.).
• New York World's Fair, Catalogue of European and American Paintings 1500-1900, Masterpieces of Art, May to October, 1940, New York, no. 255, (ill.).
• Chicago, Art Institute, Tour de France, Paintings, Photographs, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, December 9 1989 - March 4 1990, no cat.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Daumier, June 3–September 6, 1999, no. 246, (ill.).; Paris, Grand Palais, October 5, 1999–January 3, 2000; Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, February 19-May 14, 2000 [Ottawa and Paris only].
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879): The Heroism of Modern Life, October 22, 2013-January 26, 2014.

• Léon Rosenthal, Daumier, (L'Art de Notre Temps) (Paris, [1911]), pp. 105-06, pl. 45.
• René Jean, L'art Français à Saint-Pétersbourg, Exposition Centennale sous les auspices de S.A.I. le Grand-duc Nicolas Mikhailovitch (Paris, 1912), pp. 34-5.
• Ardengo Soffici, "Daumier Pittore," Dedalo 2 (1921-22), pp. 405-20, (ill.).
• Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier (Munich, 1923), p. 120, no. 373, p. 138 (ill.).
• André Fontainas, La Peinture de Daumier (Paris [1923]), p. 5 (ill.).
• Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier (Munich 1927), p. 50, no. 109, fig. 109.
• Arsène Alexandre, Daumier, (Maîtres de l'Art Moderne), Paris 1928, pl. 6.
• Henri Focillon, "Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th period, 2, 1929, (ill.).
• Honoré Daumier, Daumier raconté par lui-même et ses amis (Geneva 1945), pp. 276-77, no. 21.
• Curt Schweicher, Daumier (Stuttgart, 1953), no. 16 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 52, no. 3 (1958), p. 51, (cover ill.).
• Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting (New York, [1960]), p. 179, pl.71a.

“- 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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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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Family Scene

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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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