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HONORÉ-VICTORIN DAUMIER (1808-1879)
La déposition de mineure ('Testimony of a Minor')
black chalk, pen and black ink on laid paper
20.6 x 32.9 cm. (818 x 13 in.)
Provenance
Maurice Joyant (1864-1930), Le Vésinet.
Maurice Loncle (1879-1966), Paris, by 1958.
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1966, lot 8.
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 23 June 2000, lot 24.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
K.E. Maison, 'Daumier Studies - I: Preparatory Drawings', in: The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCVI, January 1954, pp. 14-15 (ill.).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier - Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1967, vol. II, no. 643, pl. 242.
M. Pantazzi, Daumier 1808-1879, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and other locations, 1999-2000, p. 446, no. 288.
Exhibited
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Daumier - Le Peintre Graveur, May-August 1958, no. 182 (lent by Maurice Loncle).
London, The Tate Gallery (Arts Council of Great Britain), Daumier - Paintings and Drawings, June - July 1961, no. 217 (lent by Maurice Loncle).
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