Honoré Daumier

Frédéric Samuel Cordey, Paris

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (ph. no. 285; acquired on 9 November 1891)

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (as of December 1891)

Sir William van Horne, Montreal (acquired from the above on 15 February 1892)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24 January 1946, lot 11 (consigned by the above)

Himan Brown, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Christie's, New York, 15 May 1990, lot 1 (consigned by the above)

Schlumberger Collection, Paris

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier, 1878, no. 82

Montreal, Museum of Fine Art, A selection from the collection of paintings of the late Sir William Van Horne, K.C.M.G. (1843-1915), 1933, no. 140

Arsène Alexandre, Honoré Daumier, L'Homme et l'œuvre, Paris, 1888, pl. 34, p. 64, illustrated

Henri Frantz and Octave Uzanne, Daumier and Gavarni, Studio, Londres, 1904, pl. facing p. D XVI (titled La devanture)

Dr. E. Waldemann, "Modern French Pictures: Some American Collections", in Burlington Magazine, no. 85, vol. 17, April 1910, p. 62

Karl Scheffler, Kunst und künstler : illustrierte Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, November 1910, p. 93 (probably)

Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 292, p. 113, illustrated

Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, no. 276-b, p. 62, illustrated

Jean Adhémar, Honoré Daumier, Paris, 1954, pl. 89, illustrated

Karl Eric Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, New York, 1967, vol. I, no. I-106, pl. 54, p. 107, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Discerning Tastes: Montreal Collectors 1880-1920, 1989, fig. 42, p. 85, illustrated