拍品专文
Over a period of more than thirty years Daumier depicted every aspect of life in the bustling city of Paris. In his drawings and widely circulated lithographs the artist captured the world around him and all the variety of characters with which it was populated (C. Ives, ‘Contemporary Genre. Urbanity and Domesticity’, in Daumier Drawings, exhib. cat., Frankfurt, Städelsche Kunstinstitut, and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 120-121).
Daumier was fascinated by the women, men and children he saw on the crowded streets. Women shopping in busy markets, sometimes dragging with them small children, were one of the artist’s favorite subjects; the woman depicted in this drawing recurs also, with some differences, in another sketch drawn only with brown wash (location unknown; Maison, op. cit., no. 730, ill.).
When the drawing was in Madame Bureau’s collection, it was translated into a lithograph by Héliog J. Chauvet with the title La rue. The lithograph was published by Roger-Marx in the magazine Les maîtres du dessin, a monthly publication containing reproductions of the most beautiful drawings of all schools (Roger-Marx, op.cit.) and the drawing was exhibited at the World Fair in Paris in 1900.
The drawing has a prestigious provenance as it belonged to Madame Bureau and later to her son Paul, who added to the works collected by his parents and created one of the finest collections of Daumier’s drawings in the 19th Century. Madame Bureau and Paul had been themselves the subject of one of Daumier’s drawings.
Daumier was fascinated by the women, men and children he saw on the crowded streets. Women shopping in busy markets, sometimes dragging with them small children, were one of the artist’s favorite subjects; the woman depicted in this drawing recurs also, with some differences, in another sketch drawn only with brown wash (location unknown; Maison, op. cit., no. 730, ill.).
When the drawing was in Madame Bureau’s collection, it was translated into a lithograph by Héliog J. Chauvet with the title La rue. The lithograph was published by Roger-Marx in the magazine Les maîtres du dessin, a monthly publication containing reproductions of the most beautiful drawings of all schools (Roger-Marx, op.cit.) and the drawing was exhibited at the World Fair in Paris in 1900.
The drawing has a prestigious provenance as it belonged to Madame Bureau and later to her son Paul, who added to the works collected by his parents and created one of the finest collections of Daumier’s drawings in the 19th Century. Madame Bureau and Paul had been themselves the subject of one of Daumier’s drawings.