1965.506: Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.506

People

Etienne Carjat, French (Fariens, France 1828 - 1906 Dubois, France)
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)

Title

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1861

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/256257

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 25.2 x 18.5 cm (9 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 31.8 x 24.7 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
sheet: 25 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: sheet, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Etienne Carjat [signed] 1861.
• inscription: sheet, lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: a mon viel ami Loraignes
  H. Daumier
• inscription: verso of mount, lower left, graphite: 9412
• blind stamp: recto of sheet, bottom center: Photographie [over] Carjat & Cie [over] 56 rue Lafitte, 56

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequested to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.506

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1969), p. 2

Exhibition History

• About Face: Artist's Portraits in Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/19/1997 - 10/12/1997

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