Lot Essay
Possibly connected with Daumier's series of lithographs Les Gens de Justice, published between 1845 and 1848 (Delteil 1337-1377).
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MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE MARTIN BODMER FOUNDATION
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
A lawyer holding up money bags
Details
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
A lawyer holding up money bags
pencil
10¾ x 9 in. (273 x 225 mm.)
A lawyer holding up money bags
pencil
10¾ x 9 in. (273 x 225 mm.)
Provenance
Claude Roger-Marx, Paris (with another figure, before the sheet was divided).
C.O. Schniewind (L. 641a); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 23 May 1933, lot 395. Purchased at Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 14 May 1958, lot 205.
C.O. Schniewind (L. 641a); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 23 May 1933, lot 395. Purchased at Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 14 May 1958, lot 205.
Literature
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the paintings, watercolours and drawings, London, 1968, II, no. 586, pl. 211 (photographed in the Roger-Marx Collection).