The Troubadour
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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The Troubadour

1868–73
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) visual detail
ArtistHonoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
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Provenance

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Until 1896

Count Armand Doria [1824-1896] Orrouy, France

1899

(Armand Doria sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 4-5, 1899 (no. 132), sold to Ambroise Vollard)

1899-by 1912

(Ambroise Vollard, Paris, sold to Paul Cassirer)

1912 - probably by 1915

(Paul Cassirer, Berlin)

By 1928-1940

Eduard Fuchs [1870-1940], Berlin-Zehlendorf, by descent to his wife, Margaret Fuchs

1940-1953

Margaret Fuchs, Paris and New York, consigned to Justin K. Thannhauser

1953

(Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.)

Source provenance text

Count Armand Doria [1824-1896] Orrouy, France (Armand Doria sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 4-5, 1899 (no. 132), sold to Ambroise Vollard) (Ambroise Vollard, Paris, sold to Paul Cassirer) (Paul Cassirer, Berlin) Eduard Fuchs [1870-1940], Berlin-Zehlendorf, by descent to his wife, Margaret Fuchs Margaret Fuchs, Paris and New York, consigned to Justin K. Thannhauser (Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.) Leonard C. Hanna Jr., [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Paintings and Drawings of Daumier. Tate Britain, London (June 14-July 30, 1961). Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (September 23-November 25, 1979). Honoré Daumier. National Gallery of Canada (organizer) (June 3-September 6, 1999); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (October 5, 1999-January 3, 2000); The Phillips Collection (February 19-May 14, 2000). Exposition Daumier. Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (1901). Honoré Daumier Ausstellung, Gemälde, Aquarelle Zeichnungen, Galerie Matthiesen. Berlin, Germany (1926). Corot-Daumier. Museum of Modern Art., New York, NY (1930).

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The troubadour, a medieval traveling poet and entertainer, was a popular subject in 19th-century French art. Associated with chivalry and courtly love, the theme reflects a broader, romantic fascination with France's medieval past. Although Daumier was particularly inspired by the troubadour paintings of French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau of the 1700s, he rendered the subject here in a powerful style of simplified, muscular form that appealed to modern artists of his own time.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 9 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.

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