After Daumier's death, this drawing came into the hands of the Paris art dealers Boussod & Valadon, where Vincent Van Gogh's brother, Theo, worked. Vincent seems to have recalled seeing it, writing to his brother on October 22, 1882: "I remember very well being most impressed by a drawing of Daumier's: an old man under the chestnut trees in the Champs Elysées. . . . What impressed me so much at the time was something so stout and manly in Daumier's conception, something that made me think it must be good to think and to feel like that and to overlook or ignore a multitude of things and to concentrate on what makes us sit up and think and what touches us as human beings more directly and personally than meadows or clouds."
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Medium:Watercolor over black chalk, with pen and ink, brush and wash, and lithographic crayon. Verso: pen and brown ink, black gray wash, and lithographic crayon
Dimensions:13 5/16 x 10 5/8 in. (33.8 x 27cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number:29.100.199
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. (French)(by 1888); Paul Gallimard (French),Paris (by 1901); Durand-Ruel Gallery; H. O. Havemeyer
Union League Club. "Union League Club, New York, 1890," 1890.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. "Exposition Daumier, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris," 1921.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The H. O. Havemeyer Collection," March 10–November 2, 1930.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York," October 16, 1930–November 23, 1930.
Musée de l'Orangerie. "Exposition Daumier," 1934.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Daumier, 1808-1879," 1937.
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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Classicism and Romanticism. French Drawings and Prints," September 15–November 1, 1970.
Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints," June 23–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.
New York. 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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence," March 12–July 29, 2018.
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.
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: New York Graphic Society, 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." The Burlington Magazine. 115, no. 849, 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 octobre 1973–7 janvier 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. Abbeville Press, 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, Edouard 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.
Nadine Orenstein, Jeff L. Rosenheim "A Centennial Album: Drawings, Prints and Photographs." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. LXXIV, no. 3, Winter 2017, p. 17, ill.
“When I see birches bend to left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” On April 7, 1955, Robert Frost delivered a poetry reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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