Advice to a Young Artist, Honoré Daumier

Augusta Stylianou Gallery

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Advice to a Young Artist
Honore Daumier
circa 1865-68
Oil on canvas
41.3 × 33 cm (16.26 × 12.99 in)
National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

Object history

From National Gallery of Art:
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.

Honoré Daumier