Keywords: Honoré Daumier - The Amateurs - Walters 371228.jpg In the 1860s the great caricaturist Daumier produced a number of drawings exploring the reactions of viewers to works of art In this example one of several set in a studio the haughty aloof artist awaits the presumably enthusiastic responses of his visitors between 1865 1868 black crayon with watercolor and gouache heightened with white gouache on cream moderately thick slightly textured wove paper cm 32 4 30 8 accession number 37 1228 31440 P Aubry Paris March 20 1877 by purchase from the artist Mme Aubry date and mode of acquisition unknown Paul Durand-Ruel Paris 1895 mode of acquisition unknown Cyrus J Lawrence 1886-1910 New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Cyrus J Lawrence Sale American Art Association New York January 21-22 1910 lot 34 Henry Walters city Baltimore using the alias Henry Chester Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 Signature Lower right in brown ink h Daumier The Essence of Line Daumier 1808-1879 Pennsylvania Museum of Art Philadelphia Philadelphia 1937 From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 Van Clouet to Matisse Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Musée de l'Orangerie Paris 1958-1959 Daumier Paintings Drawings Sculpture Prints Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1961 A Supple Brush The Flowering of Continental Watercolors The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 A Connoisseur's Portfolio Daumier and the Art of Caricature Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1989-1990 Daumier 1808-1879 National Gallery of Canada Ottawa; Musee D'Orsay Paris; The Phillips Collection Washington 1999-2000 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Drawings by Honoré Daumier Drawings in the Walters Art Museum |