Details
Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
Amateurs de Tableaux en visite à l'Hôtel Drouot:
L'Amateur Surpris
initialled, numbered and stamped on the base h.D., 16/30, cire
Valsuani perdue, bronze with a dark brown patina
7½in. (19cm.) high
Conceived circa 1862 and cast in an edition of 30 plus 4 trial
proofs between 1963-64
Amateurs de Tableaux en visite à l'Hôtel Drouot:
L'Amateur Surpris
initialled, numbered and stamped on the base h.D., 16/30, cire
Valsuani perdue, bronze with a dark brown patina
7½in. (19cm.) high
Conceived circa 1862 and cast in an edition of 30 plus 4 trial
proofs between 1963-64
Literature
M. Lecomte, Catalogue de la Collection René Gaston-Dreyfus, Palais Galliéra, 1966, no.46 (illustrated)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture: a Critical and Comparative Study, Fine Art Museum, Harvard University, 1969, p. 208, 244-245 (another version illustrated)
Jean Carton, Daumier Sculpteur: Les Figurines et autres Sculptures, Galerie Marcel Lecomte, 1979, cat.no. 64 (another version illustrated)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture: a Critical and Comparative Study, Fine Art Museum, Harvard University, 1969, p. 208, 244-245 (another version illustrated)
Jean Carton, Daumier Sculpteur: Les Figurines et autres Sculptures, Galerie Marcel Lecomte, 1979, cat.no. 64 (another version illustrated)