HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879) Sancho Pansa et son âne

PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT BRITISH COLLECTOR
HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Sancho Pansa et son âne
signed with the artist's initials 'H.D' (lower right)
pen and ink and wash on paper
13.9 x 12.7cm (5 1/2 x 5in).
Executed circa 1865
Provenance
Maurice Gobin, Paris.
Philip Hofer Collection, Massachusetts (acquired from the above in June 1951).
The New Gallery, New York, no. pur 53.
Walter Schatzki, New York.
Richard Sisson Collection, New York (acquired by 1960).
Private collection, New York (by descent from the above in 2003).
Private collection, Paris (acquired from the above through William McWillie Chambers III, New York, on 4 April 2006).
Anon. sale, Christie's, Paris, 1 April 2011, lot 174.
Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibited
Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Collecting Privately, 2 July – 5 August 1965, no. 3.

Literature
K.E. Maison, Daumier Drawings, New York, 1960, no. 144 (illustrated).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Vol. II, The Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1968, no. 412 (illustrated pl. 140).