Honoré Daumier
The Laundress
1863?48.9 x 33 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated, lower left: h. Daumier / 186[3?]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Lillie P. Bliss, 1931
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 43
Literature
Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh and the artists he loved, New York, 2021, p. 60
Provenance
Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, Valmondois, by 1878–d. 1892
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14-15 April 1893, nr. 24
Paul Gallimard, Paris, by 1900–probably 1926, sold to Hodebert
with Hodebert, Paris, 1926/27
?with Alex Reid and Lefevre, London, 1927
with Knoedler, London and New York, 1927, sold to Bliss
Lizzie (Lillie) P. Bliss, New York, 1927–d. 1931, bequeathed to Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1931–47
transferred on 15 September 1947 to MMA
Other works by Honoré Daumier
The Smoker and the Absinth Drinker
1856/60
1856/60
The Third-Class Carriage
c. 1862-64
c. 1862-64
Neighbourhood Gossip
1855
1855
The Beggars
c. 1845
c. 1845
The Hypochondriac
c. 1860/63
c. 1860/63