The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 17, 2024
Art Lovers
c. 1863
(French, 1808–1879)
Sheet: 26.2 x 19.4 cm (10 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1927.208
Catalogue raisonné: Daumier Register 10391; Maison 391
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Honoré Daumier produced watercolors primarily for collectors of his work, suggesting that this image, somewhat ironically, was intended to be sold to the very figures it depicts.Description
Honoré Daumier was known for his witty depictions of contemporary Parisian types, including the art collectors seen in this drawing. The sheet belongs to a series in which the artist depicted these connoisseurs in the process of closely studying works of art. Although here, the men's focus seems sincere, in many works Daumier caricatured his subjects' greediness, smugness, or obliviousness.- by 1878-by 1923Madame Pierre Bureau, Paris1923Paul Bureau [1865-1923], Paris1923 - 1927his estate, Paris1927(sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Collection Paul Bureau [première vente], May 20, 1927, no. 66, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, through Marcel Guiot)1927-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Champfleury. "L'Hotel des commissaires-priseurs (suite), l'amateur." Le Monde illustré 7, no. 314 (April 18, 1863): 253-254. Reproduced: p. 253Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier. Paris: Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1878. Mentioned: p. 62, no. 113Alexandre, Arsène. Honoré Daumier: L'Homme et l'oeuvre. Paris: H. Laurens, 1888. Mentioned: p. 376Exposition Daumier. Paris: Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts, 1901. Mentioned: p. 29, no. 131Klossowski, Erich. Honore Daumier. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1923. Mentioned: p. 119, no. 365"Le Vieux Collectionneur." "Un Ensemble Unique de 50 Daumier: La Collection Bureau." Bulletin de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, no. 738 (May 1927): 167-173. Mentioned: p. 170, 172; Reproduced: p. 171Francis, Henry Sayles. "A Drawing by Daumier." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 10 (December 1927): 155-157. Mentioned: pp. 155-157; Reproduced: coverCatalogue des tableaux anciens...Collection de M. Paul Bureau. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1927. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 66The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 57 archive.org"A Daumier Gem." The Art Digest 11, no. 7 (January 1928): 32. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32“Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75. Mentioned: p. 161 www.jstor.orgEscholier, Raymond. Daumier. Paris: Floury, 1930. Mentioned: p. 263; Reproduced: pl. 75Fuchs, Eduard. Der Maler Daumier. Munich: Albert Langen, 1930. Mentioned: pp. 38-39, 57, no. 249a; Reproduced: pl. 249Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, Inc., 1931. Mentioned: p. 232; Reproduced: pl. 92Monzie, Anatole de and Claude Roger-Marx. Daumier: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1934. Mentioned: pp. 101-102, no. 88Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris. Exh. Cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1935. Mentioned: p. 39, no. 72D.A. "'Lovers of Art,' by Honoré Daumier." Christian Science Monitor (November 1, 1936): n.p. Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.Daumier, 1808-1879. Exh. Cat. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1937. Mentioned: p. 28, no. 19; Reproduced: pl. 19Fleischmann, Benno. Honoré Daumier: Gemälde, Graphik. Vienna: Otto Lorenz, 1938. Mentioned: p. XXXIX; Reproduced: pl. 53Roger-Marx, Claude. Daumier. Paris: Plon, 1938. Reproduced: p. 3619th-Century French Drawings. Exh. Cat. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1947. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 39, no. 54Huyghe, René and Philippe Jaccottet. Le Dessin Français au XIXe Siècle. Lausanne: Mermod, 1948. Reproduced: p. 54Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Rev. Ed. London: Medici Society, 1949. Mentioned: p. 212; Reproduced: pl. 86Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. Exh. Cat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950. Mentioned: no. 8Adhémar, Jean. Honoré Daumier: Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Macmillan, 1954. Mentioned: p. 17; Reproduced: after p. 17The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 600 archive.orgHoughton, Amory. Les Dessins français dans les collections américaines de Clouet à Matisse. Paris: Art et style: 1958. Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.Moskowitz, Ira. Great Drawings of All Time. New York: Shorewood, 1962. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. III, n.p.Moskowitz, Ira and Maurice Sérullaz. Drawings of the Masters: French Impressionists. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Reproduced: p. 46The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 170 archive.orgRey, Robert. Honoré Daumier. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966. Reproduced: p. 63Feldman, Edmund Burke. Art as Image and Idea. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967. Reproduced: p. 332Maison, K.E. Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings. New York: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1968. Mentioned: vol. II, p. 135, no. 391; Reproduced: pl. 129Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1968. Mentioned: p. 136; Reproduced: p. 89Vincent, Howard P. Daumier and His World. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968. Reproduced: pl. 60The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 170 archive.orgFeldman, Edmund Burke. Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. Reproduced: p. 416Praeger Encyclopedia of Art. New York: Praeger, 1971. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 512Roy, Claude. Daumier Dessins. Geneva: Skira, 1971. Reproduced: p. 50Feldman, Edmund Burke. Varieties of Visual Experience. Basic Edition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972. Reproduced: p. 304Nishimura, Toshio, ed. Courbet et le réalisme. Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 1972. Mentioned: p. 113; Reproduced: pl. IVThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 210 archive.orgChapman, Laura H. Approaches to Art Education. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1978. Reproduced: p. 66"Drawings on Exhibition." Drawing 1, no. 3 (September - October 1979): 63-65. Reproduced: p. 64Kist, Jan Rie. Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1979. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 75, no. 81Richard, Paul. "Daumier's Fearless Wit." Washington Post (September 23, 1979): G1, G7 Reproduced: p. G1Koschatzky, Walter. Die Kunst des Aquarelles: Technik, Geschichte, Meisterwerke. Salzburg: Residenz, 1982. Mentioned: p. 432; Reproduced: p. 28, pl. 9Rotzler, Willy. Who's Who in Graphic Art. Dubendorf: De Clivo, 1982. Reproduced: p. 70Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. Mentioned: p. 201; Reproduced: p. 202Ives, Colta, Margret Stuffmann, and Martin Sonnabend. Daumier Drawings. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. Mentioned: p. 45, 165, no. 70; Reproduced: p. 46, 164."1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. Mentioned: p. 247 www.jstor.orgWechsler, Judith. Le cabinet des dessins Daumier. Paris: Flammarion, 1999. Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: p. 89Blin, Didier and Caroline Larroche. Daumier 1808-1879. Exh. Cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1999. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 410, under no. 258DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: p. 3, pp. 136-37, 291, no. 54; Reproduced: p. 137Albl, Stefan, and Alina Aggujaro. Il metodo del conoscitore: approcci, limiti, prospettive. Roma: Artemide, 2016. Reproduced: p. [2]Montfort, Anne, V. Loth, and Saul Steinberg. Saul Steinberg: entre les lignes. Paris : Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 20, no. 4Salsbury, Britany. “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The widely recognized collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 62, no. 4 (December 2022): Cover, P. 18-19. Reproduced: P. 19; Mentioned, P. 18.
- Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).Daumier Drawings. Städelsches Kunstinstitut im Städtischen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main (organizer) (November 17, 1992-January 17, 1993); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 26-May 2, 1993).Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (September 23-November 25, 1979).Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979).Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier. Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris (1878).French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).Water Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 27, 1962).Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961).Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (July 31-September 28, 1958); Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (October 24, 1958-January 2, 1959); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 3-March 15, 1959).Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).Nineteenth Century Paintings. Seattle Art Museum (March 7 - May 6, 1951).Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (June 1-September 15, 1950).19th-Century French Drawings. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (March 8-April 6, 1947).19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).Daumier, 1808-1879. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (November 6-December 12, 1937).Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).Independent Painters of Nineteenth-Century Paris. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (March 15-April 28, 1935).Daumier: peintures, aquarelles, dessins. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (March 2-June 7, 1934).Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).Exposition Daumier. Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (May 1901).
- {{cite web|title=Art Lovers|url=false|author=Honoré Daumier|year=c. 1863|access-date=17 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.208