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^[[checkmark]] 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.