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A SELECTION FROM THE COLLECTION OF WATERCOLOURS & DRAWINGS

The Print Collectors Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) France Black chalk, pen and ink, wash and watercolour on paper 34.5 x 31.1 cm Museum no. CAI 118 Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides, 1901 Daumier was a great caricaturist, who made satirical lithographs for French liberal magazines. This drawing depicts two collectors engrossed in the study of a print portfolio. The Anglo-Greek businessman Ionides was an early British collector of progressive French art. His bequest of over 1,000 pictures and prints included works by Delacroix, Millet and Degas

The Print Collectors, Honoré Daumier

The Print Collectors
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
France
Black chalk, pen and ink, wash and watercolour on paper
34.5 x 31.1 cm
Museum no. CAI 118
Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides, 1901

Daumier was a great caricaturist, who made satirical lithographs for French liberal magazines. This drawing depicts two collectors engrossed in the study of a print portfolio. The Anglo-Greek businessman Ionides was an early British collector of progressive French art. His bequest of over 1,000 pictures and prints included works by Delacroix, Millet and Degas.