Honore Daumier
(1808-1879)

Tete D'Homme (Tete D’Insurge)
oil on card laid down on canvas
5.51 by 4.72 in. (14 by 12 cm.)
10.24 by 9.17 in. (26 by 23.3 cm), framed

Signed with the initials h.D. (upper right).

The present work is closely related to the head of a boy depicted in La Famille sur la Barricade(see K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol I, New York, 1968,, plate 185, and Edward Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, p. 92).

PROVENANCE

Anonymous gift to the Toledo Museum, Toledo, 1938

Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, October 7, 2008, lot 18

Private Collection, New York

LITERATURE

Toledo Museum of Art and Blake-More Godwin, Catalogue of European Paintings, 1939, illustrated p. 175

To be included in the forthcoming supplement of the Catalogue raisonné of the work by Daumier now in preparation by the Comité Honoré Daumier.