Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
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Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)

Tête de Scapin

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Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Tête de Scapin
signed with initials 'h.D.' (upper left)
oil on panel
12 ½ x 9 ¾ in. (32 x 25 cm.)
Painted circa 1850.
来源
Adolphe Beugniet, 1866-1867.
Arsène Alexandre, Paris.
His sale; Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 18-19 May 1903, lot 21.
with Lucien Moline, Paris.
Olivier Sainsère, Paris.
with Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris.
Private Collection, UK, by 1982.
Triton Collection Foundation, The Netherlands, 2002.
出版
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1908, no. 70, (illustrated pl. 50).
A. Fontainas, Les albums d'art Druet, vol. IV Daumier, Paris, 1927 (illustrated as 'Tête').
E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, pp. 51, 127, no. 127b.
J.Lassaigne, Daumier, Brussels and Paris, 1938, (illustrated pl. 39).
G. Scheiwiller, Honoré Daumier, Milan, 1943, (illustrated pl. XXIII).
J. Cassou, Daumier, Lausanne, 1949, (illustrated pl. 48).
C. Schweicher, Daumier, London, 1954, (illustrated pl. 6).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1968, I, p. 71, no. I-34 (illustrated pl. 121).
G, Mandel, Tout l'oevre peint de Daumier, Paris, 1972, p. 91 no. 43 (illustrated).
S. van Heugten, Avant-gardes, 1870 to the present, the Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels, 2012, p. 29 (illustrated).
展览
Paris, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts Exposition Daumier, 1901, (no. 77 according to Fuchs), possibly no. 3
London, The Leicester Galleries, June 1936, Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs by Honoré Daumier, no. 87.
The Hague, Gemeentenmuseum, 16 July- 17 December 2007, Têtes Fleuries. 19e-en 20e-eeuwse portretkunst uit de Triton Foundation/ Têtes Fleuries. 19th and 20th Century Portraiture from the Triton Foundation.
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拍品专文

The subject of the present lot is Scapin the Schemer, the protagonist of the  three-act comedy of intrigue Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671) by the French playwright Molière. The character Scapin finds its origins in the Commedia dell ‘Arte where he was one of the comic servants. He was especially noted for his cowardice (the Italian scappare means "to flee") taking flight at the first sign of conflict. Scapin constantly lies and tricks people to get ahead. He is an arrogant, pompous man who acts as if nothing were impossible for him. However, he is also a diplomatic genius. He manages to play the other characters off of each other very easily, and yet manages to keep his overall goal in sight.

Great parallels can be drawn with other nefarious characters that Daumier often chose to depict in his work. His lawyers, Daumier's chief bêtes noires, often provided the subject matter for his paintings that he is most commonly associated with in the public imagination. Not unlike the literary character of Scapin, he saw  lawyers as 'men paid to simulate emotion and pious devotion to justice, but actually smug and insensitive. They arouse an antipathy in him that goes beyond mere caricature' (R. Ray, Honoré Daumier, London, 1966, p. 66).

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