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Exhibition History"DAUMIER 1808-1879," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 3 - Sept. 1, 1999, (circulated to: Réunion des museés nationaux/musée d'Orsay, Paris Oct. 5, 1999 - Jan. 3 2000; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C., Feb. 19, 2000 - May 14, 2000).Color ill. p.401.

"The Kirsch Years 1936 - 1958," A Testimonial Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 7 - Feb. 10, 1974, (circulated to: Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 25 - Mar. 31, 1974)

"Current Painting Styles and Their Sources," Des Moines Art Center's 10th anniversary exhibition, June 1 - July 20, 1958

"Ingres to Lautrec," Paul Rosenberg and Co., N.Y., Oct. 27 - Nov. 22, 1952

Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1878
Published ReferencesJacques Lassaigne, DAUMIER (in series "Les Grandes Maitres de la Peinture"), Paris, 1946, ill. p.7

DMAC BULLETIN, Oct. 1958, ill.

Jacques Lassaigne, DAUMIER, Paris, 1938, ill. pl. no.33

DAUMIER 1808-1879, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999, cat. no.250

THE NATHAN EMORY COFFIN COLLECTION, a portfolio of fifty selections from the collection, published by the Des Moines Art Center in 1981 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nathan Emory Coffin, b/w ill.

Georges Besson, DAUMIER, Paris, 1959, ill. pl.102

DES MOINED SUNDAY REGISTER, Sept. 1958, ill.

K. E. Mason, HONORE DAUMIER, CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS, Vol. I, New York, 1968, ref. no.157, ill. pl. no.79

SUPPLEMENT A LA GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Feb. 1964, ill. p.68

Gerhart Ziller, HONORE DAUMIER, Dresden, 1957, ill. p.98

N. Kalitina, HONORE DAUMIER, Moscow, (Russian Text), 1955, ill. p.127

Paul Valery, DAUMIER, Paris, 1939, ill.

AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. p.92, color ill. p.93

CATALOG OF THE DECOURCELLE SALE, Paris, 1926, cat. no.20

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.56 & 57, b/w ill. p.56

"The Kirsch Years 1936-1958," Des Moines Art Center and Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1974, ext. cat. no.12

"Current Painting Styles and Their Sources," Des Moines Art Center, 1958, cat. ref., frontispiece ill.
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/2 × 10 in. (34.3 × 25.4 cm)
Accession Number 1958.59
Classificationspainting
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedH.D. (l,l oil paint)
Catalogue raisonnéMaison, I-157
ProvenanceArtist, France. Charles Daubigny (1817-1878), Paris [acquired by 1878]; Mme. Daubigny, Paris [acquired by descent, 1878]. Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), Moleaux/Paris [acquired by 1926]; (Collection Pierre Decourcelle, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 Juin 1926, no. 20); Monsieur Poyet, Paris [purchased from the previous, 1926]. (Wildenstein Gallery, New York); Duncan Phillips, Washington, D. C. [acquired from the previous, 1927]; Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris then New York [acquired through trade with the previous, 1934]; Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1958]
Le Liseur (The Reader)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines