The Beggars

The artist [1808-1879]; by inheritance to his wife, Marie-Alexandrine Daumier, Paris; (Durand-Ruel, New York); sold 1892 to Peter A.B. Widener [1834-1915], Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; by exchange April 1908 to (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold November 1908 to de Lagotellière, Paris.[1] [Eugene?] Hirsch, Paris; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 December 1912, no. 17); purchased by Gaston Bernheim de Villers [1870-1953], Paris, for his private collection. Julien Bessonneau, Angers, in 1914.[2] Marcel Kapferer, Paris, by 1924;[3] (Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin); sold by 1930 to Fritz Hess, Lucerne;[4] (Hess sale, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, in conjunction with Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1 September 1931, no. 17, bought in or bought by Arthur Fischer of Galerie Fischer); (Hess sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 2-7 September 1935, no. 2343, St. Galler und Basler Privatbesitz, Sammlung B., bought in); (Arthur Fischer, Lucerne); sold 1949 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.[5] [1] The picture was traded, in May 1908, to Knoedler & Co., New York, for "3 Van Dycks," according to a handwritten note on the plate reproducing the painting in the copy of the 1908 Widener catalogue in the NGA library's Archive section (Reference Librarian's Office). The sale by Knoedler to de Lagotellière was confirmed by Knoedler to David Rust, 30 March 1964. [2] Lent by Bessonneau to the 1914 exhibition at Grosvenor House, according to T. Martin Wood, "The Grosvenor House Exhibition of Modern French Art," _International Studio_ LIV, no. 213 (November 1914): 7. [3] Lent in 1924 by Kapferer to _1e Exposition de Collectionneurs_, held at L'Hôtel de la Curiousité et des Beaux-Arts in Luxembourg. [4] Lent by Hess to the 1930 Corot-Daumier exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. [5] Date and source of Dale acquisition according to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records.