1943.798: Head of a Grinning Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.798

People

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

Title

Head of a Grinning Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297548

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown-black ink on beige modern laid paper

Dimensions

16.8 x 13.5 cm (6 5/8 x 5 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

H. Rouart. [Eugene Blot]. [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1924, 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

1943.798

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jacques Lassaigne, Daumier, William Heinemann, Ltd. (London, 1937), p. 45, repr.
• Jean Adhémar, Daumier: Dessins et Aquarelles, Les Editions Braun & Cie. (Paris, 1954), p. 20, cat. no. 17, repr.
• Ernst Gombrich, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Pictoral Psychology of Pictorial Representation, Pantheon Books (New York, NY, 1956), no. 299
• 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. 33
• Roger Passeron, Daumier: Témoin de son Temps, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Paris, 1979), p. 218, repr.

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