Honoré Daumier

Roger Marx, Paris;
Claude Roger-Marx, Paris;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 13 November 1997, lot 223,
where purchased by the present owner

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Exposition Daumier, 1934, no. 96

E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, New York 1927, no. 63, reproduced pl. 92;
J. Lassaigne, Daumier, Paris 1938, reproduced pl. 140;
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Watercolours and Drawings, vol. 2, London 1968, no. 478, reproduced p. 162

According to Maison, "this work has very close affinities with the composition of Les deux médecins et la Mort in the collection of the late Dr. Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur: the two figures in the watercolor are drawn in reverse, but their attitudes are very near identical with those of the figures in the present drawing".¹

^1. Maison, op. cit., p. 161