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L'amateur de melons

Series TitleLes Beaux Jours de la Vie
Artist Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)
Date1845
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 9 inches (24.13 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-961
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1954.

Prints by Artists who Influenced Vincent van Gogh, Missouri State Council on the Arts, November 1972-November 1973.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by October 6, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
Published References

Loÿs Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 23 (Paris: 1926), no. 1161 II/II, unpaginated, (repro.), as L’amateur de melons.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 295, as L’amateur de melons, from Les Beaux Jours de la Vie.

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