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Property of a Private Collector

Honoré Daumier

L'Avocat pathetique

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February 27, 05:41 PM GMT

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Description

Property of a Private Collector

Honoré Daumier

1810 - 1879


L'Avocat pathétique

signed with the initials hD. (lower right)

charcoal, pen and ink, brush and ink and pencil on paper

8 ¾ by 6 ⅛ in.

22.2 by 15.6 cm.

Executed circa 1850-55.

Henry Marcel, Paris

Jos Hessel, Paris

Étienne Bignou, Paris

Private Collection, The Netherlands (acquired by 1924)

Private Collection, Switzerland

Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2004, lot 412 (consigned by the above)

Jan Krugier and Mary-Anne Poniatowsky, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2014, lot 388 (consigned by the above)

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired at the above sale)

The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections, Mount Kisco, New York (gifted by the above in 2016)

Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 2021, lot 1 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Martine Marotte and Charles Martine, Dessins de mâitres français, Honoré Daumier, vol. IV, Paris, 1924, no. 30, n.p., illustrated

Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, n.n., p. 24, illustrated

Karl Eric Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, vol. II, London, 1967, no. 633, pl. 238, illustrated