2021.187: Study of a Man's Head for "The Organ Grinder"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2021.187

People

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

Title

Study of a Man's Head for "The Organ Grinder"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Tête d'homme

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1860

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/370188

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black crayon, gray wash, watercolor, and opaque white watercolor on off-white laid paper, mounted to board

Dimensions

12.7 × 15.2 cm (5 × 6 in.)
mount: 25.6 × 27.5 cm (10 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso of mount, top half, stenciled, black: 645NY
• label: verso of mount, top half, in the shape of a palette: DORURE & ENCADREMENTS / CH. DOSBOURG / 97, Rue de Courcelles / PARIS / 424
• inscription: lower left: h.D
• label: verso of mount, upper left of frame, round, ballpoint: 163-5

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mrs. V. Trachtenberg, New York. Boris Solotareff (1889-1966), New York. [1] Sold [through Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 9, 1965, lot 78]; to Perman. [Spencer A. Samuels & Company, LTD, New York], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, 1967

Notes
[1] According to Maison the drawing passed through a sale in Paris on June 14, 1966 in Paris at Palais Galleria as lot 6. However, the drawing's dimensions and the reproduction in the catalogue do not match this work. Maison and the catalogue are the only places we have found the drawing to list Louis Lemaire and Lefevre Gallery and it is likely an error

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection

Accession Year

2021

Object Number

2021.187

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Important Impressionist and Modern Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, July 9, 1965), p. 44, lot 78
• The Intimate Notation: European Drawings and Watercolors, XVIth-XX Century, exh. cat., Spencer A. Samuels & Co., LTD (New York, 1967), p. 25, cat. no. 7, repr.
• Karl E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, New York Graphic Society, Ltd (New York, NY, 1968), Vol. II, p. 26, cat. no 6, repr. plate 1
• Dieter Noack, The Daumier Register (online, 1999), no. 10006, http://www.daumier-register.org/werkview.php?key=10006, accessed May 5, 2021

Exhibition History

• The Intimate Notation: European Drawings and Watercolors, XVIth-XX Century, Spencer A. Samuels & Co., LTD, 10/01/1967 - 11/01/1967

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