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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.795
People
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)
Title
The Good Argument
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Bon Argument; Le Plaidoyer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1840s
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297557

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, white gouache, red ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
18.2 x 23.2 cm (7 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Arosa collection, Paris. Henri Vever, Paris, sold [his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, February 1-2, 1897, lot no. 138 (sold as "Le plaidoyer")]. Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq., New York, sold [his sale, American Art Galleries, January 21, 1910, lot 31], to [Durand-Ruel, Paris]. [Scott & Fowles, New York]. Glenville L. Winthrop, 1925, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.795
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Sadleir, Daumier, the man and the artist, Halton & Truscott Smith (London, England, 1924), plate 35
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings and Watercolours" [Winthrop collection], Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943), vol. X, no. 2, pp. 53-57, repr. in b/w p. 56
  • Jean Cassou, Daumier, Editions Jean Marguerat (Lausanne, 1949), cat. no. 11
  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 168, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 202
  • 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. 233, cat. no. 670
  • [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1993 - 1994)., repr. p. 9

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/14/2016 - 01/06/2017

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