A Lawyer Pleading, His Arms Crossed (L’Avocat plaidant, aux bras croisés)

A Lawyer Pleading, His Arms Crossed (L’Avocat plaidant, aux bras croisés)

1864
Artist
Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879
Born: France
Country
French
Object
drawing
Medium
Pen and black ink on cream laid paper affixed to artist board
Accession Number
2019.588
Credit Line
The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Honoré Daumier (French). A Lawyer Pleading, His Arms Crossed (L’Avocat plaidant, aux bras croisés). 1864. Pen and black ink on cream laid paper affixed to artist board. The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection. 2019.588.
Dimensions
sight height: 4 1/2 in, 11.4300 cm; sight width: 3 1/2 in, 8.8900 cm; frame height: 12 in, 30.4800 cm; frame width: 10 in, 25.4000 cm; frame depth: .75 in, 1.9050 cm; overall height: 4.4882 in, 11.40 cm; overall length: 3.6220 in, 9.20 cm; height: 4.5 in,
Inscription
Inscribed by the artist at lower left, [?], cut off
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
With Guiot, Paris; with Knoedler; with Bohn, Paris; with Marcel Lecomte, Paris; René Gaston-Dreyfus (1886–1969), Paris; his sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, June 14, 1966, lot 5; Mme S. Henri Rhein, Paris; her sale, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, October 19, 1988, lot 18; private collection; with Wildenstein, New York; from which acquired by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], 2009; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.
Exhibition History
  • Possibly Salon, Paris, 1864 (according to inscription on backing)
  • "Daumier: Dessins, lithographies, sculptures, oeuvre gravé"—Museé Cognacq-Jay, Paris, 04/14–06/11/1961, exh. cat., no. 13, repr.
  • "Passport to Paris"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013–02/09/2014