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A Lawyer Reading

Honoré Daumier
1808-1879

A Lawyer Reading

1855-1860
9 1/4 x 6 11/16 inches (235 x 170 mm)
Black and brown watercolor with gray opaque watercolor over black chalk and charcoal on laid paper; verso: black chalk.
2017.50

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials in pen and black ink at lower right: hD.
Associated names
Lemaire, Louis, former owner.
Lemaire, Mme., former owner.
Bignou, Etienne, former owner.
David-Weill, David, 1871-1952, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 70, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 87.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department