1965.250: Two Lawyers Conversing

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.250

People

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)

Title

Two Lawyers Conversing

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296747

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black crayon, black ink, watercolor, and gouache on cream laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 25.5 x 16.5 cm (10 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Beurdeley, [his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 2-4, 1920, lot 101]. [Maurice Gobin, Paris, by 1923]. Paul J. Sachs, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.250

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 76
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 657, fig. 333
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 8
• [Reproduction only], J. B. Speed Art Museum Bulletin, Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, March 1947)., reproduced on cover
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 23
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 53, repr.
• Karl E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings, Volume II The Watercolors and Drawings, Thames and Hudson, Ltd. and New York Graphic Society Ltd. (England, 1968), p. 199, cat. no. 599
• [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1997-1998)., repr. p. 35

Exhibition History

• Exposition de Peintres et Graveurs de Paris, Galerie Brummer, 01/01/1913 - 01/01/1913
• L'École Français du XIXe siècle, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, 01/01/1918 - 01/01/1918
• Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/15/1935 - 04/28/1935
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
• Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
• Honoré Daumier 150th Anniversary, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 07/15/1958 - 10/08/1958
• Daumier Paintings and Drawings, Tate Britain, 06/14/1961 - 07/30/1961
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967

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