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Honoré Daumier: The Laundress  wikidata:Q19911724 reasonator:Q19911724
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Honoré Daumier  (1808–1879)  wikidata:Q187506 s:fr:Auteur:Honoré Daumier q:en:Honoré Daumier
 
Honoré Daumier
Description French painter, architectural draftsperson, caricaturist, sculptor, lithographer and engraver
Date of birth/death 26 February 1808 Edit this at Wikidata 10 February 1879 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Marseille Valmondois
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Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q187506
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Best known for his lithographs—social satires and political caricatures that were published in the newspapers "Le Charivari" and "La Caricature" during the reign of Louis-Philippe (1830-48)—Daumier also produced some three hundred paintings. "The Laundress" is the largest and possibly the last of three painted versions of this composition, one of which was exhibited at the Salon of 1861.

From his studio on the quai d'Anjou, overlooking the Seine, Daumier observed the laundresses returning from the laundry boats moored on the river, their bodies hunched over from the weight of their loads as they ascended the stone steps of the embankment. Daumier invested his views of the working class with a sense of dignity, which, in the 1870s and 1880s, would be echoed in the novels of Émile Zola and the art of Edgar Degas.
Date 186[3?]
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 19.2 in (48.8 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,19.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
47.122
Object history
  • Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, Valmondois (by 1878–d. 1892;
  • his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 14–15, 1893, no. 24, as "Sortie du bateau à lessive," for Fr 5,400);
  • Paul Gallimard, Paris (by 1900–probably 1926; sold to Hodebert);
  • [Hodebert, Paris, 1926/27];
  • [?Alex Reid and Lefevre, London, 1927];
  • [Knoedler, London and New York, 1927; sold to Bliss];
  • Lizzie (Lillie) P. Bliss, New York (1927–d. 1931);
  • 1931: bequeathed to Museum of Modern Art by Lizzie P. Bliss
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (1931–47);
  • September 15, 1947: transferred to
Exhibition history
Exhibition History:
  • Paris. Galeries Durand-Ruel. "Daumier," April 17–June 15, 1878, no. 37 (as "Sortie du bateau à lessive," lent by M. Geoffroy-Dechaume).
  • Paris. Exposition Internationale Universelle. "Exposition Centennale de l'art français (1800–1889)," May–November 1900, no. 180 (as "Femme remontant du lavoir aux quais de la Seine," lent by M. Gallimard).
  • Paris. Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts. "Exposition Daumier," May 1901, no. 42 (as "Le Linge," lent by Gallimard).
  • Paris. Galerie Eugène Blot. "Daumier," 1908, no. 6.
  • Copenhagen. Musée Royal de Copenhague. "Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle," May 15–June 30, 1914, no. 61 (as "Laveuse du quai d'Anjou," lent by P. Gallimard).
  • Copenhagen. Statens Museum for Kunst. "Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle," 1917, no. 314 [see Ref. Maison 1968].
  • Basel. Société des beaux-arts. "Exposition de peinture française," 1918, no. 35 [see Ref. Maison 1968].
  • Basel. Société des beaux-arts. "Exposition de peinture française," May 8–June 30, 1921, no. 51 (as "Le Linge," lent by M. Gallimard).
  • New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Corot–Daumier," October 16–November 23, 1930, no. 80 (lent from a private collection, New York).
  • New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lizzie P. Bliss, Vice-President of the Museum," May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 23.
  • Andover, Mass. Addison Gallery of American Art. "The Collection of Miss Lizzie P. Bliss: Fourth Loan Exhibition," October 17–December 15, 1931, no. 23.
  • Indianapolis. John Herron Art Institute. "Modern Masters from the Collection of Miss Lizzie P. Bliss," January 1932, no. 23.
  • Northampton. Smith College Museum of Art. January–February 1933 [see Ref. Barr and Klein 1934].
  • New York. Museum of Modern Art. "The Lillie P. Bliss Collection," May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 22.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris," March 15–April 28, 1935, no. 3 (lent by the Lillie P. Bliss collection, Museum of Modern Art).
  • Los Angeles Museum. "The Development of Impressionism," January 12–February 28, 1940, no. 13 (lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York).
  • New York. World's Fair. "Masterpieces of Art: European & American Paintings, 1500–1900," May–October 1940, no. 258 (lent by The Museum of Modern Art, Lillie P. Bliss Collection, New York).
  • New York. Wildenstein. "From Paris to the Sea Down the River Seine," January 28–February 27, 1943, no. 6 (lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York).
  • Toledo Museum of Art. "The Spirit of Modern France: An Essay on Painting in Society, 1745–1946," November–December 1946, no. 28 (lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York).
  • Art Gallery of Toronto. "The Spirit of Modern France: An Essay on Painting in Society, 1745–1946," January–February 1947, no. 28.
  • Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Daumier, 1808–1879," June 11–September 6, 1999, no. 163.
  • Paris. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. "Daumier, 1808–1879," October 5, 1999–January 3, 2000, no. 163.
  • Washington. Phillips Collection. "Daumier, 1808–1879," February 19–May 14, 2000, no. 163.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920," February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 18.
  • Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19.Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat.
Credit line Bequest of Lillie P. Bliss, 1931
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h. Daumier / 186[3?]
References Daumier register number: 7159
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 436091

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