Advice to a Young Artist

Honoré Daumier1865/1868

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Title: Advice to a Young Artist
Creator: Honoré Daumier
Date Created: 1865/1868
Physical Dimensions: overall: 41.3 x 33 cm (16 1/4 x 13 in.) framed: 65.7 x 57.5 cm (25 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.)
Provenance: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot [1796-1875], Paris; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, part III, 7-9 June 1875, no. 665); purchased by Arthur Stevens.[1] Guillotin, Paris, by 1901. Adolphe A. Tavernier, Paris, by 1901.[2] [Ernest?] Cronier, by 1904. Goerg [or Georg], Reims, by 1905. A. Bergeaud, Paris, in 1910.[3] (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd., Glasgow and London), by 1927; sold to D.W.T. Cargill [1872-1939], Glasgow. (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1928.[4] (Galerie Étienne Bignou, New York); sold 1941 to Duncan Phillips [1886-1966], Washington, D.C.; gift 1941 to NGA. [1] Annotated copy of Corot sale catalogue gives "Stevens" as purchaser; Jean Adhémar, _Daumier_, Paris, 1954, no. 79, gives collection "Arthur Stevens." [2] Lent by Tavernier to 1901 Daumier exhibition in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, no. 76. [3] Lent by Bergeaud to _Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'école française: Vingt peintre du XIX siècle_ at Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, in 1910, no. 40. [4] See letter dated 24 August 1966, in NGA curatorial files, which documents the sale by Alex Reid & Lefèvre to D.W.T. Cargill, Glasgow. Lent by Cargill to Knoedler's 1928 exhibition in New York.
Medium: oil on canvas

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