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DAUMIER, Honoré (1808-1879)

[[underlined]] "THE TWO COLLEAGUES" [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] "LES DEUX CONFRERES" [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] "CHER CONFRERE[[strikethrough]]S[[/strikethrough]]" [[/underlined]]

Watercolor: 11-1/2" x 8-1/8"
Signed lower left: "h. Daumier"
Two lawyers wearing the traditional somber garb of their profession are seen shaking hands in front of the portal of a courthouse.

[[underlined]] Collections [[/underlined]]: Madame Albert Esnault-Pelterie
Robert Esnault-Pelterie

[[underlined]] Exhibited [[/underlined]]: "Exposition Daumier", Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 1934, No. 143.
"Daumier Exhibition" Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia 1937, No. 41.

[[underlined]] Bibliography [[/underlined]]: C. Baudelaire, "Les Dessins de Daumier" (1924) Plate 24.
E. Fuchs, "Der Maler Daumier" (1930) No. 207b, Plate 207b.
Ars Graphica Plate 24.

[[underlined]] Reproduced [[/underlined]]: "Daumier Exhibition" Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1937, Plate 41.