Details
HONORE DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Les émigrants
signed bottom right h. Daumier--inscribed on the bottom edge .Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. Epreuve d'éssari cire perdue.-- bronze with dark brown patina
12 x 26½ in. (30.5 x 67.3 cm.)
Original terracotta version executed circa 1871; this bronze version cast by Georges Rudier after 1960 in an edition of 10 from a plaster executed by Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume under the artist's supervision
Les émigrants
signed bottom right h. Daumier--inscribed on the bottom edge .Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. Epreuve d'éssari cire perdue.-- bronze with dark brown patina
12 x 26½ in. (30.5 x 67.3 cm.)
Original terracotta version executed circa 1871; this bronze version cast by Georges Rudier after 1960 in an edition of 10 from a plaster executed by Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume under the artist's supervision
Provenance
CDS Gallery, New York
Literature
M. Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur, Geneva, 1952, pp. 308-311, no. 65 (plaster version illustrated, p. 311)
J. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge, 1969, pp. 174-183, no. 39 (another cast illustrated, p. 183)
J. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge, 1969, pp. 174-183, no. 39 (another cast illustrated, p. 183)