Art Lovers
c. 1863
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
Drawings
Art Lovers, c. 1863. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879). Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper; sheet: 26.2 x 19.4 cm (10 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1927.208 Honoré Daumier was known for his witty depictions of contemporary Parisian types, including the art collectors seen in this drawing. The sheet belongs to a series in which the artist depicted these connoisseurs in the process of closely studying works of art. Although here, the men's focus seems sincere, in many works Daumier caricatured his subjects' greediness, smugness, or obliviousness. Honoré Daumier produced watercolors primarily for collectors of his work, suggesting that this image, somewhat ironically, was intended to be sold to the very figures it depicts.
- Maker/Artist
- Daumier, Honoré
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 26.2 x 19.4 cm (10 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in black ink: h.D.
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1927.208
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Daumier: peintures, aquarelles, dessins, Independent Painters of Nineteenth-Century Paris, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Daumier, 1808-1879, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections, Drawings from the Museum Collection, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, 19th-Century French Drawings, Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Italian and French Drawings, Aspects of Drawing, Water Color, Drawings, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, French Drawings, Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings, Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879, Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures on Paper, Daumier Drawings, French Drawings from the Collection, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier</em>. Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris (1878)., <em>Exposition Daumier</em>. Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (May 1901)., <em>Nineteenth Century Paintings</em>. Seattle Art Museum (March 7 - May 6, 1951).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101B Prints & Drawings
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