Oil painting portrait of two men facing opposite directions against a dark background
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Unable to open [object Object]: HTTP 0 attempting to load TileSource: https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/17386592/info.json
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The painting is constructed of loose, suggestive brushstrokes. Two light skinned men are standing side by side, visible above the hip. The man at left is clothed in black. His back to the viewer, he looks up and slightly to the right with his mouth open and hands raised. Gray hair is visible beneath a small black hat. The man at right wears a light cream covering that drapes slightly at his sides. His arms are crossed and, with a neutral expression, he turns his head toward the other man. Their bodies fill the frame against a plain brown backdrop.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.225
People
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)
Title
Scapin
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Scapin and Géronte
Alternate Title: A Rogue
Series/Book Title: from Moliere's Les Fourberies de Scapin
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1860-1862
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230056

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions
33.7 x 25.7 cm (13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
framed: 52.5 x 44 cm (20 11/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Honoré-Victorin Daumier; to M. Turquois, Paris, 1878, by descent; to Mme. and Mlle. Turquois Dulac (his daughters), sold; to [Wildenstein and Co., New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1931, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.225
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS.

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Arsène Alexandre, Honore Daumier: L'Homme et L'Oeuvre, H. Laurens (Paris, France, 1888), p. 374
  • Exposition Daumier, exh. cat., Syndicat de la Press Artistique and Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1901), p. 22, no. 78
  • Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, R. Piper (Munich, Germany, 1923), no. 73
  • Giovanni Schiewiller, Honoré Daumier (Milan, Italy, 1936), repr. pl. XXII
  • Pierre Courthion, Daumier: raconté par lui-même et par ses amis, Pierre Cailler (Geneva, 1945), pp. 284-285
  • John Coolidge, "Do You Know What You Like in Art?", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (January 10, 1953), repr.
  • Catherine W. Blanton, "'Scapin and Géronte' by Daumier", Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1964, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1965), pp. 165-171
  • Catherine W. Blanton, "An Unpublished Daumier Panel in the Fogg Museum of Art: Scapin et Géronte" (Student paper, Harvard University, 1965), Unpublished
  • Catherine W. Blanton, "An Unpublished Daumier Panel in the Fogg Art Museum: 'Scapin and Géronte' ", The Burlington Magazine (October 1966), pp. 511 ff and fig. I
  • Karl E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, New York Graphic Society, Ltd (New York, NY, 1968), vol. I, I-128, p. 119, pl. 126
  • Luigi Barzini and Gabriele Mandel, L'opera pittorica completa di Daumier, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1971), repr. in color, tav. XXXIII
  • Pierre Georgel and Gabriele Mandel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1972), no. 168, pp. 102-103, repr. as pl. 33
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 206, p. 181, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 104, repr. as no. 310
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 15, pp. 73-75, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 15, pp. 81-83, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 01/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
  • Exposition Daumier, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 01/01/1901 - 12/31/1901
  • Udstillingen af Fransk malerkunst fra den første halvdel af det 19. aarhundrede, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 03/31/1928 - 04/21/1928; National Museum Stockholm, Stockholm, 05/12/1928 - 06/16/1928; Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, 07/01/1928 - 08/31/1928
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

Related Objects

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu