Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône 1808 - Valmondois, Val-d'Oise 1879
Maker: Rudier, Alexis
Portrait d'un acteur
Portrait of an Actor
c. 1846-1850
bronze
bust
Dimensions (HxWxD): 18 3⁄4 x 18 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄2 in.
signed left shoulder, back: Daumier No. 1
[no foundry mark but provenance is Alexis Rudier]
Acc. No.: 1963.93.FA
Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift
Photo credit: Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domain
Provenance
- Alexis Rudier
- 1960, New York, Wildenstein & Co.
- 1963, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift
Bibliography
- 1930 New York
Corot-Daumier, New York, Museum of Modern Art, October 16-November 23, 1930, no. 149 (probably another bronze copy, lent by The Balzac Galleries, New York) - 1952 Gobin
Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur, Genève, 1952, p. 58-59, ill. - 1969 Wasserman
Jeanne L Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1960, p. 198-203, ill. - 1979 Lecomte
Marcel Lecomte, Daumier Sculpteur, Paris, 1979, no. 65, ill.
Exhibitions
- 1930 New York
Corot-Daumier, New York, Museum of Modern Art, October 16-November 23, 1930, no. 149
Related works
- Unbaked clay, acquired from Rudier c. 1959, New York, Wildenstein & Co. c. 1969, present whereabouts unknown.
Later bronze edition by Valsuani.