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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1927.202
People
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)
Title
The Butcher
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Le Boucher
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1860-1863
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298962

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black crayon, white chalk, and white gouache on cream wove paper
Dimensions
30 x 23.3 cm (11 13/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Bureau, Paris, before 1923, sold; [Bureau sale, May 20, 1927, lot 76]. [Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York]., sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
1927.202
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 73
  • Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), introduction, cat. no. 147
  • Jacques Lassaigne, Daumier, William Heinemann, Ltd. (London, 1937), p. 100, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 656, fig. 332
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 7
  • 19th Century French Drawings, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA, 1947), no. 52 p. 38
  • Jean Adhémar, Daumier: Dessins et Aquarelles, Les Editions Braun & Cie. (Paris, 1954), p. 21, cat. no. 25, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), no. 102, pl. 137
  • Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), no. 102, pl. 124
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 102, pp. 78-79, pl. 124, 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. 89, cat. no. 262
  • Henri Loyrette, Daumier, 1808-1879, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1999), p.351, fig. 1, repr.
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 218, 220, 286, repr. p. 219 as fig. 5

Exhibition History

  • Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/15/1935 - 04/28/1935
  • Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
  • 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
  • 19th century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/08/1947 - 04/06/1947
  • French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
  • Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017

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