A Man Reading in a Garden (recto); Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso)

Corot at Ville d'Avray

Signature: In pen and ink at lower left: "h. Daumier"

Marking: Label: "Boussod, Valadon & Cie"

Prev. owned Boussod, Valadon and Co. (Paris)(by 1888); Paul Gallimard,Paris (by 1901); Durand-Ruel Gallery; H. O. Havemeyer; Donor: Louisine W. Havemeyer

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Daumier, 1808-1879," 1937.

Union League Club. "Union League Club, New York, 1890," 1890.

Musée de l'Orangerie. "Exposition Daumier," 1934.

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. "Exposition Daumier, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris," 1921.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The H.O. Havemeyer Collection," March 10, 1930–November 2, 1930.

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York," October 16, 1930–November 23, 1930.

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Nineteenth century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1947," March 8, 1947–April 6, 1947.

Musée de l'Orangerie. "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec : Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections américaines," April 20, 1955–July 5, 1955.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Classicism and Romanticism. French Drawings and Prints," September 15, 1970–November 1, 1970.

Paris. Musée du Louvre. "Dessins Français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints," June 23, 1981–August 23, 1981.

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. "Honore Daumier, 1808-1879," June 11, 1999–September 6, 1999.

Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. "Honore Daumier, 1808-1879," October 5, 1999–January 3, 2000.

Phillips Collection. "Honore Daumier, 1808-1879," February 19, 2000–May 14, 2000.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 20, 2008–January 11, 2009.

Royal Academy of Arts. "Daumier: Visions of Paris," October 26, 2013–January 26, 2014.

Maison 361 and 359 (verso)
Ives/Stuffmann 64
Klossowski 397
Fuchs 175

"Revue of Exhibition at Union League Club." in Art Amateur. vol. 22, May 1890, p. 122.

Léon Rosenthal Daumier : accompagnées de quarante-huit notices. Paris, n.d., fig. no. pl. XLVIII, p. 111.

Gustave Geffroy Exposition Daumier. Paris, 1901, cat. no. 200.

Henri Frantz, Octave Uzanne Daumier and Gavarni. London, 1904, fig. no. D. VIII, ill.

Ardengo Soffici "Daumier pittore" Dedalo. vol. 2, 1921, p. 412, ill.

Raymond Escholier Daumier. Paris, 1923, before p. 175, ill.

Erich Klossowski Honoré Daumier. Munich, 1923, cat. no. 397, fig. no. pl. 148, p. 122, ill.

Michael Sadleir Daumier. 1924, fig. no. pl. 62.

Eduard Fuchs Der Maler Daumier. 1927, cat. no. 175, fig. no. pl. 175, p. 53, ill.

Corot-Daumier Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1930, cat. no. 122, p. 24, ill.

The H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art. Privately published, New York, 1931, pp. 184 (ill.), , ill.

Roger Eliot Fry Characteristics of French Art. 1933, fig. no. pl. XXIX A, p. 116, ill.

Charles Sterling, Anatole de Monzie, Claude Roger-Marx Daumier: Peintures, aquarelles, dessins. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1934, cat. no. 146.

Elise Van Hook, Henri Marceau, David Rosen, Claude Roger-Marx Daumier, 1808-1879. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1937, cat. no. 21, ill.

Benno Fleischmann Honoré Daumier, Gemälde, Graphik. Vienna, 1938, fig. no. pl. 44, ill.

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 44 (vol.2), fig. no. 44, ill.

Nineteenth century French drawings. San Francisco, 1947, cat. no. 53.

Regina Shoolman, Charles E. Slatkin Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. Oxford University Press, New York, 1950, fig. no. pl. 84, p. 148, ill.

Jean Adhémar Daumier Dessins et Aquarelles. Paris, [1954], cat. no. 12, ill.

Jean Adhémar Honoré Daumier. Paris, 1954, cat. no. 67, fig. no. 67, p. 120, ill.

K. E. Maison "Daumier studies, part 1: preparatory drawings." Burlington Magazine. vol. 96, 1954, pp. 14, 16, ill.

De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-D'Oeuvre des Collections Américaines Exh. cat., 20 April - 5 June. Musée de l'Orangerie , Paris, Paris, 1955, cat. no. 64, fig. no. pl. 31, ill.

J. E. Schuler, Rolf Hänsler Meisterzeichnungen von der Welt bewundert. Stuttgart, 1962, pp. 208, 209, ill.

Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Graphic Society, New York, 1964, cat. no. 70, fig. no. 70, ill.

Oliver Larkin "Daumier: the later years." Massachusetts Review. Autumn. 1965, opp. p. 810, ill.

K. E. Maison Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings. 2 vols., New York, 1968, cat. no. 359, 361, fig. no. pl. 112, 113, pp. 121,122, ill.

Linda Boyer Gillies "European Drawings in the Havemeyer Collection" Connoisseur. vol. 172, no. 693, November 1969, fig. no. no. 6, pp. 151, 153, ill.

Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives, Jacob Bean Classicism and Romanticism: French Drawings and Prints, 1800-1860. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, cat. no. 12, p. 3.

Maurice Sérullaz, Arlette Sérullaz L'Ottocento francese: I Disegni dei maestri. Milan, 1970, fig. no. pl. XIV.

Jacques Fryszman "French Drawings from the Metropolitan Museum at the Louvre." in Burlington Magazine. vol. 115, no. 849, London, December 1973, fig. no. 3, pp. 835-837, ill.

Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso. 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 October, 1973-7 January 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 21, fig. no. 27, p. 29, ill.

Daumier's Universe. 1977, p. 10, ill.

Roger Passeron Daumier témoin de son temps. Fribourg, 1979, fig. no. 185, pp. 240, 242, 24, ill.

Christopher Finch Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris, 1991, fig. no. 200, pp. 153-154, ill.

Bruce Laughton The Drawings of Daumier and Millet. 1991, fig. no. 8.33, pp. 134-135, ill.

Nicholas Wadley Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. Laurence King Publishers, London, 1991, fig. no. 66a, p. 214, ill.

Colta Ives, Martin Sonnabend, Margret Stuffmann, Klaus Herding, Judith Wechsler Daumier Drawings. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, cat. no. 64, fig. no. 64, p. 156, ill.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Catherine Lampert, Mr. Michael Pantazzi, Judith Wechsler, Édouard Papet, John Berger, T. J. Clark, Peter Doig, Sarah Lea Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris. Beatrice Gullström, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2013, cat. no. 65, pp. 25, 122-123, ill.