Honoré Daumier

Count Armand Doria, Orrouy

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 May 1899, lot 135 (consigned by the above)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1900, lot 4

Henri Rouart, Paris

(possibly) Paul Rosenberg, Paris

Richard Bühler, Winterthur (possibly acquired from the above; by 1921)

Richard Bühler and Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich and Berlin (acquired on 1 October 1928)

Richard Bühler and Thannhauser Maison d’Art, Paris (transferred from the above by 24 September 1937)

Richard Bühler, Winterthur (acquired from the above in 1947)

Justin K. Thannhauser, New York and Berne (acquired by 1956 and at least until 1978)

Galerie Christian Fayt, Belgium

Acquired from the above by the present owner

(possibly) Basel, Société des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de Peinture française, 1921, no. 57, listed

(possibly) Paris, Galerie L. Dru, Aquarelles et Dessins de Daumier, 1927, no. 35, p. 13, listed (titled Lecture)

London, The Leicester Galleries, 1936, no. 93

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Collection Justin K. Thannhauser, 1956, no. 105

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, French Painting of the last Half of the 19th Century, 1956

London, Tate Gallery, 1961, no. 37

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Collection Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978, no. 7, p. 39, illustrated

K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, vol. I, London, 1967, no. 212, pl. 83, illustrated

Stefan Koldehoff and Chris Stolwijk, ed., The Thannhauser Gallery: Marketing Van Gogh. Brussels and Amsterdam, 2017, pp. 23, 35 and 228, mentioned

Valerie Ender, Vom wirtschaftlichem Aufstieg, Verfolgung und Exil. Die Galerie und Sammlung Thannhauser 1909-2005, Cologne, 2023, p. 88, mentioned